Broken Vessels

Unbroken vessels become bad examples to follow.

We stand in need of messengers, preachers, teachers and fathers that minister the Word of God from humility and meekness.

This place of brokeness looks like weakness. Yet, it becomes the place of God's great strength, might power, authority and wisdom operating in one who has endured being broken.

1 Corinthians 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

In the wilderness, in the cave, on the mountain top one learns complete dependency upon Christ.

It is from this place we are able to not only find rest, but we find our resting place.

He becomes our all in all.

An unbroken person usually comes to rely on position, power, what they have, what they know or what they do for their identity.

As sons and daughter of God, our identity and validation comes from His affirmation and approval of who we are as His children.

It is from a state of being, not doing.

It is not that we know about Him.

We know Him and are known by Him

We  come forth as sons of God in calling, stewardship, Gifting, mandates etc .. by being birthed from relationship and Covenant with the Father first.

This comes from the place of breaking before the making.

As I like to say, " if we are not refined, we cannot be defined"

All gold and silver must be purified before it is ever poured into a mold to create jewelery or art.

Any precious elements not separated from base metals cheapens the value and quality of what is made.

It is this same pattern that plays out in the life of every believer.

The same way precious metal is refined and then defined, so are we.

When we stand before people, many times it is the unrefined and unbroken parts of us that talk louder than the part of us that is genuine.

It is because of mixture, that true value and worth many times is not seen.

An unbroken vessel carries traits of pride, flesh, false humility that appears as strength, but releases a false representation before the people.

This representation is then emulated and then imitated producing vessels dependent on man more than on Christ.

Even as Saul, first king of Israel stood head and shoulders over the people, he appeared strong.

We must learn to not look just upon the outward appearance of a person.

1 Samuel 10:23

So they found him and brought him out, and he stood head and shoulders above anyone else.

Yet, this unharnessed vessel brought great destruction and pain to Israel.

He was anointed with a flask,1 Samuel 10:1

 He ascended immediately to the throne and power without any breaking or making.

 He was man made.

Meanwhile, David was on the backside of the fields tending sheep, fighting wild animals and writing songs. He was a man after Gods own heart.

When Samuel went to anoint the chosen one, he made the mistake of looking on the older brother.

1 Samuel 16:-7

It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”

 7  But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For humans do not see as God sees, for humans look at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.”

He was anointed with a rams horn by Samuel 1 Samuel 16:13.

David was 17 - 20 years before receiving the throne in Juadah. He was another 7 years before being crowned in Israel.

He was a broken vessel.

He was God made.

We see the difference in their approach to leadership and the influence on the people.

Saul used the people and extracted from them.

David covered the people and gave to them.

Saul saw the people as ones to serve him.

David saw himself as a servant to the people.

The impact a broken vessel will have on people is that it brings healing and virtue from Heaven.

Truth operates leading people to righteousness and humility allowing a sure foundation to be laid. It creates an atmosphere for obedience to be cultivated.

It builds strong covenant relationships because it was built on the Rock, Word and the Spirit

The affects of an unbroken vessel on people is that it produces more wounds.

Perversion and deception eventually flows from this camp. Lies operate creating more pride.

Rebellion begins to manifest more and more to the commandments of God.

It breaks covenant because it was built for self upon personality and flesh.

This become more evident when we compare the True Bride of Christ compared to the Harlot Church.

The true bride adores herself for the heavenly bridegroom and prepares for eternity with spiritual resources.

The harlot adores herself for seducing others to herself and prepares temporarily with natural resources

It is good to be naturally secure.

However, it does not benefit one to prepare temporarily and ignore eternity.

Vessels, broken by the potter, and Master of our soul, will weep over the unregenerate state of humanity. They see from the heart of God and it continues to break their heart.

The prophet Isaiah, seeing Christ in past tense 650 years prior to Christ's birth prophesied this.

Isaiah 53:2 He was despised, and rejected by people; a man of sorrows, and familiar  with illness; and as one from whom people hide their face. He was despised and we did not value him.

The irony of the one most rejected by man was most qualified by Heaven.

I pray we can see through the eyes of the Father.

Who has the Kingdom called, prepared, qualified and chosen as examples to the Body?

We might be surprised by Sovereign selection versus man's election.

In His Service,

Jesse Griffin

Lessons in Leadership

Lessons in Leadership

Upon entry into Jerusalem, the crowd hailed Jesus shouting Hosanna.

John 12:13 People take palm branches and shout "Hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel".

Seven days later they cried, "CRUCIFY HIM"

John 19:10   But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him.

At the mock tribunal, all of the disciples abandoned the Lord.

Mark 14:50 50  And they all forsook him, and fled.

Peter, who was to be the next in authority denied Him.

Jesus told told Peter about his denial in Matthew 36:34

Mat 26:34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say to you, That this night, before the cock crow, you shall deny me thrice.

Peter believed he would never do such a thing.

Matthew 26::35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples

His speech and declaration even moved others to declare the same thing.

Yet, when the pressure hit, they could not stand.

 The test strikes hard at them all.

Peter caves in under pressure when He is questioned in verses 71-74

Matthew 26:74  Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

Mat 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly

People will shift if they do not get what they want from leaders. This was Judas issue, as He wanted a political Messiah to set on the physical throne of Israel.

These kind of shiftings are carnally and demonically inspired..

People will leave if they fear it will cost them something. In this case, their lives.

None the less, Messiah had to stay the course regardless of anyone believing on Him, following Him, or obeying Him.

He had to find Himself obedient to His Heavenly Father although almost everyone left His side.

Individual relationship and obedience to the Father is not predicated upon the praise or the approval of man.

It is determined by the will of God. We must embrace it.

In seasons of great testing it requires great faith and determination to not loose heart.

It is in these kind of moments that the Vision, Word and Voice of the Father must remain alive.in us to encourage us to press on.

Christ fulfilled His call so that we could become who we were created to be.

Had He decided to quit because of the unbelief of people, accusation, mockery and their disobedience, where would we be today?

Jesus prayed for Peter knowing what He would go through was only going to be temporary.

Judas heart was set.

Peter's heart was momentarily influenced.

Christ knew Peter would return and the brethren would need him.

Luke 22:31  The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

 32  but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Someone will reap from our obedience and persistence.

Scripture tells us Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Even when we feel like quitting ... DON'T!!!

Find out what to do and do it WELL!!!

WE SHALL REAP WHAT WE SOWED IN TIME.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin 

Kingdom Reign International Ministries.

Character Before Charisma

Office

Gifting

Anointing

Skill

Talent

Revelation

Charisma

Should never be allowed to replace

Scripture

Obedience

Serving

Righteousness

Fruit

Holiness

Character

The Scripture says 

1 Timothy 5:22  Lay hands suddenly on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Any time leadership commissions a person into a work and they are in sin, it falls on their hands.

Leaders will be charged for prematurely releasing a person into ministry.

They are charged for the damage it does to the Body of Christ.

In a desire for inspiration, revelation and the demonstration of the things of the Spirit, many have given passes to people who should have been sat down.

The Word tells us in 

Ephesians 5

1  Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

2  Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

3  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

In 1 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul had no problem with putting a young man out of the Church for sleeping with his father's wife, his step mother.

Now, with this said, many will be charged for bringing in perverts, adulterers, fornicators, gay, lesbian into their congregations to minister.

They might be anointed, so was the devil.

They might be called, so was Judas.

Yet are they delivered, healed, Baptized in the Holy Spirit, full of the Word, walking in the Fruit of the Spirit, Pure, Holy, and Righteous?

Are these people hiding scandal after scandal while preaching?

Many do not know they are celebrating people with unclean spirits.

Many do not discern they are supporting people with familiar spirits.

Every time they are allowed to lay hands, it opens people up to be influenced by something other than the Holy Spirit.

We will be charged before the Lord for allowing this.

Oh, they can sing ..... so.

Can they demonstrate a consistent lifestyle that Glorifies the Lord?

Every year they fornicate.

They have besetting sins and stumbling blocks of iniquity always before them.

We must stop letting them bring that mess into the House of the Lord just because they can preach.

Here is a hard admonishment and command from the Apostle Paul.

1 Corinthians 5:11 

But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

Stop giving validation to people whose lifestyle has disqualified them from inheriting the Kingdom.

Allowing perversion and rebellion a platform only spreads spiritual leprosy in the House of God.

When we see lust and rebellion running rampant in a place, it must be stopped.

Division, separation, divorce, and adultery in marriages could be a curse.

Sickness, disease and premature death could be due to unrepented sins.

In Revelation 2:18-29 we see the Word to the Church of Thyatira concerning Jezebel.

Early manuscripts called her the wife of the Pastor.

Aramaic Bible says

Revelation 2:20

“I have much against you, because you are tolerating your wife Jezebel who says about herself that she is a Prophetess, and teaches and seduces my Servants to commit fornication and to eat the sacrifices of idols.”

Most modern translations say, you allow or suffer that woman, Jezebel.

Here is the problem. No one used their authority to stop her. She was allowed to operate unrestrained. This allowed for her to do several things within the Body of Christ.

Self Exaltation- false prophetess 

False authority - usurped order

False teachings- depths of Satan.

Seduction - produces fornicators

Idolatry - eat sacrificed things serving otherr gods

The Word says she was given time to repent of her sexual immorality but refused to repent.

Now, watch this! The Lord does not play when it comes to His people and His Body.

Because she refused to repent, the Lord will deal with her and everyone that was infected by her.

  Rev 2:22 Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression (sickness), unless they repent of her works.

When people start getting sick due to spiritual poisoning, you cannot cast it out or heal it.

It must be REPENTED OVER and Jezebels works must be renounced.

These seducing spirits prey on the unsuspecting and snares them in destruction.

As if that was not enough, the Lord then says

 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

You messed with My children, now I will show you the Fear of the Lord.

We must stop giving the right hand of fellowship to those the Word and the Lord says clearly sit on His left hand.

In His Service,

Jesse Griffin 

#KingdomReign

The Others

THE OTHERS: 

Concerning modern day prophets.

There is coming a day where we will mark the true prophet by several factors that seems to have eluded the modern day church in many places.

These marks include their message, rejection as well as persecution. They will also be branded by what they are commanded to and willing to confront.

As unpopular as this is, nothing changes without conviction. In order for there to be conviction, there must be confrontation.

We see Stephen in Acts 7 accurately recalling the history of Israel and the forefathers without incident.

That is until we read in verse 51

 51  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

 52  Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

 53  You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

54  Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

He reveals the true condition of their hearts. In this, Stephen tells them how their fathers had persecuted the prophets. It is this same condition that caused them to betray the RIGHTEOUS ONE and became murderers themselves.

When true Word is preached, there will usually be only two types of responses.

1. Conviction unto repentance, producing Humility and brokeness. 

2. The piercing of the heart that causes retaliation to the messenger. Pride, defiance, stiffnecked, hard heartedness manifests.

Mass acceptance of a person calling themself a prophet does not mean they are called as such or even have Kingdom credibility.

Heavens approval marks the carriers of this Divine calling with different qualifying factors.

By today's standards, being trendy, charismatic, motivational, or even inspirational may be acceptable to the masses. Yet, this does not qualify one as a prophet.

Prophets are not just revelational as many would relegate them to.

True prophets, by design, are confrontational.

It is this very nature that causes the true prophet to be highly misunderstood.

The ability for a prophet to understand God is a gift of faith He alone gives to the one He calls.

The prophet, in many cases can see and hear what no one else can perceive.

They are then given a commandment to speak the Word of God 

They are called to be governmental.

Not only do they set order, they confront anything that is contrary to the Kingdom.

This causes them to also have a confrontational anointing.

Being Kingdom minded requires a Jeremiah 1:10 mindset to root up, pluck up, tear down and destroy before building and planting.

Anything not founded on the Word, leading of the Holy Spirit, Righteousness or Holiness becomes something that can eventually be confronted.

They challenge the kingdom of darkness.

They challenge the world.

They challenge the demonized.

They challenge the rebellious that call on the Name of the Lord.

They will even challenge the most obedient of Saints.

They are a plumb line set in the Earth to measure foundations and alignments.

They not only carry revelation.

They carry the authority of Christ by Divine calling. They demonstrate this through a lifestyle of Holiness, Humility and Christlike Character.

This authority to challenge the world as well as the Saints make them unpopular.

 The demonized want them gone.The carnal and the rebellious in God's House will betray and murder many times before they will repent.

It is hard to reconvert one who has willingly chosen to pervert the truth.

This confrontation will cause them to experience great persecution.

There was a time true prophets and even the saints were marked by rejection, persecution, trials and the imprisonment they endured.

Being a true prophet, for the most part, will not make a person popular on a grand scale.

In Hebrews 11 the Scripture heralds the champions of the faith by the endurance they displayed to keep the faith.

In the beginning of Hebrews 11 we see those marked as having faith by their great obedience such as Noah and Abraham.

We see others experiencing great victories such as Gideon, Samuel, David and the prophets.

 Hebrews 11:33  who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

 34  quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

35 Women received their dead by resurrection. 

This is absolutely amazing. Faith is stirred and boldness is activated through reading the actions of these guardians of the faith.

Then we read this.

Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

 36  Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

 37  They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

 38  of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

 39  These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise.

THE OTHERS.

The Word tells us that the world was not worthy of the presence of these ones whom they treated so harshly.

Whenever any level of faith is demonstrated, it will also stir up rejection and persecution.

So while they believed, preached and lived by faith, they did not receive the Messiah and the Promises at that time.

Yet according to verse 40, we have received what they believed for.

Now that is faith.

Whether we are accepted or rejected by man at the time makes no difference.

The Promise will manifest and we will get our reward.

The ultimate reward is the King and being an heir of God, not temporal things.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin

Awards Are Not Rewards

It is wrong that people believe they can determine who has had the greatest worship song of the year.

People can give affirmation and acknowledgments of accomplishments but

Rewards Are Given in Heaven.

These are carnal operations that divide the Body. This breeds competition and causes sincerity to leave the hearts because of ambition.

I bet there is a little girl or boy who whispered a song to God that was a sweet incense in the nostrils of the Father.

It wasn't recorded professionally by man but it registered in Heaven.

I am sure there is widow who uttered a cry somewhere in the world that moved the Father more than a prolific artist.

The worship of the poor from a place of brokenness pouring out before the Throne probably moved the Father in a way our professionalism never will.

David on the backside of the wilderness was taking care of problems that his brothers should have been dealing with.

His worship is still being read today. 

His worship being inspired by the Holy Spirit to the point He prophesied the Messiah.

His worship moved God in such a way He became empowered to conqueror lions, bears and Goliaths.

When did man earn the right to measure worship based on popularity instead of the impact it had on God's heart?

God alone determines the weight of reward on the worship offered.

Worship is intimacy with God. How can we measure one person's love language to God over anothers?

Only God can measure the sacrifice it required to render praise and worship.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

These offerings were peace offerings and not trespass offerings.

These offerings were meant to keep the established peace that had been attained through the sacrifice offered for sin already.

Meaning the Lamb had been crucified and the blood shed for our sin. I am now in a place of  peace with God.

Now we offer a praise to keep the relationship in place. How can any individual measure praise or worship as it is an offering rendered to keep the relationship intact?

In order to measure worship or praise we would have to also have the ability to measure the heart of the one rendering it.

This alone is Gods to receive and to reward the one offering it up to Him.

I believe strong delusion has prevailed over many in the spirit of pride without even knowing it.

I believe what could have started sweet and innocent can become tainted when this spirit of competition enters in.

The Word says in Isaiah 42:8

  I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to idols.

When we begin to exalt leaders and gifts in such a way as American Idol we make people into idols.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying, appreciating, honoring and blessing gifts that God gives to the church for her building up.

Yet to begin exalting these offices and talents in the same way the world does will eventually cause the once open Heavens over the lives of these anointed vessels to begin to close.

Many will produce music but it is no longer worship in the ears of God.

They will feel forced by industry to have to produce a number 1 seller or stay at the top of the charts. This is a syench in the nostrils of God. It does not come out of a sincere and genuine pursuit but out of performance and self recognition.

As the Body of Christ, we must constantly assess our priorities and reasons for doing what we are doing. Worship is for God alone.

Not a stage for men and women to be heralded on.

God visits altars not platforms and stages.

Worship must be offered as it was on the altar of incense that was started by the fire on the altar.

Everything else is strange fire.

In His Service,

Jesse Griffin

Men of God / Abstain

Men of God, the war for your soul is real.

All around us are things that are eroding at society and bringing more and more moral decay.

It comes to us, we do not have to look very far.

This Screenshot is from my SPAM account on FB. Just one click opens a portal and our eyegate.

It is trying to bring a collapse to the integrity, holiness and perseverance of the House of God and men of God. The enemy knows if the men go so does the order of God.

We must understand, this is a trophy hunt for the adversary.

The Good News is men of God, you do not have to lose the battle.

We are admonished

Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us

Peter writes 

1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Learning to abstain is the KEY.

To abstain means to hold oneself off from or refrain.

 In order to learn to abstain one must also learn how to ABIDE. 

Jesus said in John 15:4 unless you ABIDE in me you can do NOTHING. 

We cannot bear fruit unless we abide.

 How do we abide?

1. Pray

2. Fast

3. Communion

4. Read the Word / Study / Meditate 

5. Worship

6. Fellowship with Believers

7. Serve somewhere

8. Pray for others

9. Healthy Hobbies

I know that this sounds easier than it actually is, but it is a necessary practice that each one of us men must learn to do.

If the enemy gets you, it fragments the home.

Home is to be your paradise, your garden, oasis where you provide and protect your family.

No one is going to protect us if we do not want to be protected.

Single men, you must learn how to war against those things that pull on your flesh. Find some stronger men in the faith and get filled with faith, strength, wisdom and power.

Let them pray for you and don't deny the battle.

Instead realize what the battle is for and make a choice.

Submit yourself FIRST TO GOD

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.

Ask the Lord to give you singleness of mind and focus. Don't just have the knowledge of Heaven but desire the world.

Married men.  Change the way you see your wife. Years ago I knew my wife is not a ball and chain. She is an anchor that keeps me from being pulled out into dark and dangerous waters.

If you view your helpmate as unable to help you, you will despise her and become more gravitated to what you should be running from.

Do not despise your good thing and then sell out for a morsel of meat.

My wife and I have an understanding about the war on men. When we first met I told her if you hear me praying against adultery, pornography, fornication, and perversion it is not because I am doing it.

It is a constant reminder that I refuse to come into an agreement with something that will ruin my walk with God, my family,  my wife and marriage, or my soul.

If you struggle with lust and its affects, you are not alone. 60% plus deal with this issue from the fall.

The good news is you do not have to go through alone from defeat to defeat.

We have a High Priest who was tempted in all areas, yet without sin. 

He understands the pressure. 

We can talk to Him!

1. Submit to God

2. Resist the Devil.

3. Renounce the temptation immediately

4. Cleanse your hands

5. Purify your heart ❤ 

Here is a process that  helped me be victorious.

At times as a single man, I would lay on my face a cry out to God because I was alone but my flesh was rising up.

I walked celibate for 13 years. It is possible if we take the right steps. We must see the value in why the word tells us to avoid youthful lusts and fornication.

Why is pornography wrong? Why is fornication wrong? Why is adultery wrong?

It goes completely against the nature of God who is not perverted but Holy and Righteous.

He does not break a Covenant He instituted.

These perversions destroy the institution of marriage, makes room for idolatry and promotes selfishness. Not only is it carnally based but it is demonically inspired.

In many cases there is more at work than just a persons flesh.

Here is a true story. A Man of God went to a porn site. The people logged his IP address and got his info.They BLACKMAILED HIM!

 He paid once but then they insisted on more. They would tell his wife, friends, oh and yes... his church.

The only way he could break free was to tell his wife and  get help from the church.

The DEVIL is a professional at extortion.

The only way to be free is to break completely free and break the power of His influence. 

You must cleanse your heart of what he is able to tempt you with.

Don't open the door. ABSTAIN. Get help 🙏 

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin

Be PERFECT

A person looking for a perfect man or woman of God to serve or follow will never find them in the sense of a person who is flawless.

Instead, one should look for those who are mature and still allowing perfection to happen.

The commonly used verse "be perfect as your Father is perfect" means be mature.  

Matthew 5:48

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

It means to allow completion. Allow for the culmination of the expected end which is to become fully grown. To fully mature and exercise virtue.

It does not mean one is instantly perfect on the spot. It is a continual forward progress until we become like our Father. 

We are becoming.

Jesus prayed in John 17

22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me

In John 15:4 Jesus said to the Apostle, you cannot bear fruit unless you abide in Him.

If we see a lack of fruit or character it reveals a lack of abiding.

The Apostle Paul said "follow me AS I follow Christ"

One challenge is discerrning between a preacher, teacher, a called one and a FOLLOWER.

Christ had this to say in regards to those who taught but lived contrary to their teachings.

Matthew 23

1  Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

2  Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Easy English Version

Jesus talks about dangerous teachers

Matthew 23

 1  After that, Jesus spoke to the crowd and to his *disciples.

 2  ‘The teachers of the *Law and the *Pharisees have authority to explain the *Law of Moses.

3  You must obey everything that they teach you. But you must not do the same things that they do. They teach you what the *Law of Moses is. But then they themselves do not obey these rules.

The Lord did not have a problem with what the teachers and Pharisees taught.

His issue was their heart condition, motive and that they themselves did not obey what they taught.

What they teach is correct, but the character in which they live is not.

If you obey what they say (because it is still the Word "Law") it will benefit you.

We will get lost when we begin to analyze, scrutinize and then criticize every action a person in ministry makes.

The question needs to be asked. Are they teaching right? 

Are they living in right?

Do they live what they preach?

Can it be seen with evident fruit that they are not just teaching Christ, but that they are LIVING CHRISTLIKE?

Then pick up not just their teachings, but their example of character as well.

We must not allow pride a place to set up its Throne on our hearts to the point we cannot find, follow and serve someone somewhere.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin

Snares To The Soul

Healing Anger and Bitterness/ Mara

SNARES TO THE SOUL.

There are times we must face the facts that we have caused problems or have been problematic in our lives, 

As believers, as we come out of sin and bondage, we can almost guarantee we hurt people.

We make it right and we determine to be part of solutions instead of problems.

On the contrary,, some believing individuals, for whatever reason, never get delivered, healed or mature. Something hinders them from receiving.

Instead, they leave a continuous wake of destruction behind them.

They are so bitter, angry, critical and unforgiving, that nobody is good or right enough.

If ninety-nine things go right, but one thing goes wrong, they park on the negative.

They just can't stay grateful, thankful and joyful.

Something always is happening. 

They are at the epicenter of victimville (my word).

They live somewhere different in their mind.

Everyone is against them.

Noone understands them.

The enemy is always at work.

They see devils and enemies more than they see God and friends.

They go on a journey of self sabotage and sabotaging others as they rampage about everything that is going wrong.

Pride fuels anger and instead of a full inspection of the heart, they blame everyone they ever knew. The people that are closest to their inner circle are about to feel hurricane force winds.

Nothing stills the turbulence of the unsettled emotions and feelings of poisoned waters.

Mara sets in.

They are tainted by the gall of bitterness.

Wormwood rules their life and brings them a false sense of strength and independence.

They are entitled to be the way they are as they identify as a victim. They, after all, are always right.

Humility runs away as they target their victims in the cross hairs of their scope.

When we have people in our lives that continuously belittle, degrade, devalue and undervalue people, the Spirit of love and honor is missing.

We must make a choice on what to do before it gets ahold of us too.

Eventually it can poison us if we allow it.

Pro 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Pro 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: 

25  Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.⁹

Pro 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression. 

Let us become the wise Bride and not destroy what we should be building.

Pro 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

As Moses led Israel into the Wilderness they at one point found no water.

 Exodus 14:22  So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

When they did find water it was undrinkable.

23  And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

This is how many people are. The water in them is poisoned. No one can drink.

Blessings and Cursing cannot come from the same well.

 24  And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

 25  And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

A TREE 🌳  YESSSSS. He threw in a TREE and the waters were healed.

I am here to say Jesus hung on that TREE at CALVARY. The wood of the cross makes all bitter waters sweet. Let Him throw the completed work of the CROSS into our lives and watch the HEALING FLOW.

BITTER WATERS MADE SWEET!

Then as we drink and are refreshed He speaks His Promises to us.

 26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

1. Listen to His voice

2. Do right in His Sight

3. Give Ear to His commandments

4. Keep His Statutes

5. Receive His protection

6. Be Healed

OH HOW SWEET IS HIS LOVE TOWARDS US.

NOW BE HEALED in Jesus Name!

In His Service, 

Jesse Griffin

Come Follow Me

We don't have a say in when God calls us.

We do have a choice to make when it happens.

Many individuals find themselves making excuses when the Spirit of the Lord calls them deeper..

Instead of seeing the oppurtunity to partner with the Lord and what can be gained, they only see what will be lost.

This is true for ministers who have already walked in a measure but not in a fulness.

The "Come Follow Me" call Christ gave in Matthew 8 and Luke 9 was not a salvation call.

It was a call to deeper fellowship, discipleship and calling.

If we only read Luke 9, it looks as if Christ is speaking to a random stranger

Luke 9:57  And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

58  And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

59  And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

60  Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

He told him TO PREACH! This was a commission not a call to salvation.

Now, when we read in Mattew 8, we find that this is not just a random person being called to salvation.

This man was a scribe.

Matthew 8: 19  And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

20  And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

This man was a scribe And called Christ Master.

A scribe in the Bible, was a man learned in the Mosaic law and in the sacred writings, an interpreter, teacher. Scribes examined the more difficult and subtle questions of the law;  The advice of men skilled in the law was needed in the examination in the causes and the solution of the difficult questions, they were enrolled in the Sanhedrin; and are mentioned in connection with the priests and elders of the people.

They were also writers and taught pertaining the Kingdom of Heaven.

In Luke 9 we read in verse

 61  And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

62  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Yet in Matthew 8 we find out there was a man that was a disciple. It is believed these men are one and the same by many.

Matthew 8

 21  And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

 22  But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

What we stand to learn from this is that the Come and Follow was not given to the ignorant. It was given to the informed.

What we learn is that they were forfeiting a deeper walk to handle earthly and fleshly matters.

We place the "Come Follow Me" as a salvation call.

According to the Word, it would seem this was a call to those who were already called and walking in a measure,  but not a fulness.

This is why we read in Luke 9:62  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

These individuals had already put there hand to the plow but were now backing off.

We received the call to salvation and welcomed it. Can we now hear the call to deeper relationship, stewardship, responsibility, sacrifice or whatever He sees we need to step out of and into?

Are we like the scribe who said he would follow but it was for earthly treasures?

Christ let Him know he had no home and no place to find rest in that present moment.

How do we respond to the "Come and Follow Me" call?

Do we think we already know everything He wants to teach us? Therefore we find earthly cares or pleasures as more important?

May we be like the disciples when they were called

Matthew 4:18  And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. place

19  And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20  And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

We have no say in when He calls us. We  have a choice to make.

Let us pray that we all see the oppurtunity in front of us to grow closer to the Lord.

HE IS CALLING US.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin

#KingdomReign

Take The Test

Take the Test

It is always good to do a self evaluation..

One area I am always inspecting is pride.

The Word is clear

Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

We do well to learn from the Word and avoid pitfalls clearly defined as such.

The Holy Spirit has been sent to assist us and make us into overcomers.

Before looking at someone else in identifying these traits of pride, go grab a mirror.

Leviathan is the king of the children of pride.

Job 41:34  He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

I know I have had to repent of many of these traits of pride and get right with the Lord and people.

Pride will not yield where there is

*True Glory

*True Kingdom Authority

*Strong Leadership

*Authentic Anointing

*A place that brings Biblical correction.

*Spirit of Holiness

*It cannot yield and serve unless it has a position.

*It preys on weak leaders

*Uses revelation to elevate itself instead of fruit of the Spirit.

*Uses money, power and influence to attract and draw people to themself instead of Christ.

*Chases money, power and preeminence.

*Must be dominate and working to be on top of others.

*Refuses to make covenant that requires accountability and inspection.

*It is an Oath, Vow and Covenant breaker

*Above the Law of God

*Above the law of man

*Always right

*Never apologizes.

*False Repentance

*False Humility

*Trapped by worldly sorrow

*Sorry I got caught not that I did it attitude.

*Haughty

*Stiff Necked 

*Hard Hearted

*Arrogant

*Boastful

*Impatience

*Self Righteous 

*Holier Than Thou Attitude

*Critical

*Fault Finding

*Unforgiving 

*Mockery

*Belittling 

*Degrading

*Ridiculing

*Lofty Looks

*Self Centered

*Ego

*Pat My own back

*Feeds on self praise

*Self Idolatry

*Prejudice

*Racist

*Self,  Race or Culture is supreme

*Sexist

*Bigotry

*Dictatorship

*Controlling

*Domineering

*Twists truth to own advantage

*Manipulative

*Seducing

*False Charm 

*False Compliments

*Pierces to destroy others

*Makes crooked paths

*Brings  confusion

*Disrupts peace

*Strife

*Arguing

*Quarlling

*Debate 

*Fighting

*Murder

Pride is concerned about who is right,

Humility is concerned about what is right 

In His Service,

Jesse Griffin 

#KingdomReign

Prophets: Subjected, Serving the Lord, His Body and Leadership

Prophets: Subjected, Serving the Lord, His Body and Leadership

One of the challenges facing ministries everywhere is the mindset of entitlement.

Many are called, but few are chosen. 

Matthew 24:14

There is a prevalent mindset that says, "because I am called, I have a right."

In the Kingdom, that is not true.

Having revelation or a call does not grant immediate permission to speak, teach or do anything in the Body of Christ.

One cannot become chosen without submission.

Any individual that is going to lead the Body of Christ, must first serve the Body of Christ.

Lone rangers, shot gun prophets, shooting star prophets, vagabonds, drifters, gypsies and nomad prophets are not the modern expression of prophets in the Ekklesia.

To often individuals with high prophetic gifting or called as prophets want to prophesy and run away.

They want to tell the Body what to do, but are not willing to associate with and serve the local assembly.

The role of accountability in the Kingdom does  not allow this type of behavior.

The Word says 1  Corinthians 12:30  If any thing be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace.

 31  For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

 32  And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Verse 32 states that the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

This passage has been improperly interpreted by many to show that the person who wants to prophesy must subject their own spirit to themselves and show restraint.

Yet, that does not reveal the intentions of the writer. What this shows is what was similar to the school of prophets where they yielded to one another.

In this case, each prophet was accountable to his counterparts and co-laborers to allow humility to operate.

This allows proper protocol for each person to prophesy as the Lord reveals revelation to each prophet. They are subject to each other and to the Holy Spirit.

Subject here means to place in an arranged order.

to arrange under, to subordinate

to subject, put in subjection

to subject one's self, obey

to submit to one's control

to yield to one's admonition or advice

to obey, be subject

Strong's Definition: From G5259 and G5021; to subordinate ; reflexively to obey: - be under obedience (obedient), put under, subdue unto, (be, make) subject (to, unto), be (put) in subjection (to, under), submit self unto.

It is the same word translated as submit in James 4:7

 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

One must find themselves in the proper arranged order as set by God and led by the Holy Spirit.

When we speak of the prophetic, this references gifting. This usuly stays in the realm of edification,  exhortation and comfort.

When we speak of prophets, these are governing offices. These set in place doctrine and order. They give instructions and direction.

The authority in these functions are totally on different levels.

Paul says let the spirits of the prophets be subject to the prophets.

In this then we need to find out if these offices have been set by God according to 1Corinthians 12: 28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

If these offices have been called and set by God, then they must become subject.

Some reasons prophets refuse to become part of the local assembly include:

1. Pride

2. Rejection

3. Preeminence

4. Impatience

5. Selfishness

6. Irresponsible 

7. Lack of Maturity

8. Wounds from previous leaders or family 

9. Rebellion

10. Critical spirit

11. Offense

12. Holier than thou attitude 

13.Wrong understanding of office

We could keep listing.

This list could apply to any office or person.

If we are called, then who are serving?

If we are not in place, how can we become  chosen while housing disobedience and rebellion?

The Apostles were CALLED in Matthew 10 but were commissioned in Matthew 28

In Matthew 10:1 they had authority

1. against unclean spirits, to cast them out

2. heal all manner of sickness 

3. Heal all manner of disease. 

Vs 7  to preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

 Vs 8  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:

At the commission  in Matthew 28,

they were given stewardship to disciple souls or nations.

We still marvel over devils and miracles.

God marvels at men and women who endure process to handle the harvest.

The Apostle Paul was CALLED in Acts 9 but was not COMMISSIONED FULLY until Acts 13

It is estimated that this could have been 10 years in the making.

Paul was serving Barnabas.

After all the Glory, having encounters and revelation, Paul was serving the Apostolic presbytery.

I want to encourage individuals to find that place where they can be subject, serve and grow.

Becoming chosen depends on being in place for when the time of your needs arises.

BECOME CHOSEN

1. Study.

2. Be Teachable 

3  Be Humble

4. Do the task at hand

5. Serve a local leadership, church, ministry that has a set order according to Scripture

6. Be faithful

7. Avoid sin and temptations

8. Honor God and those leaders

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin 

#KingdomReign

Wings of Healing

Do we believe that the Lord truly wants to heal us?  Unfortunately, many do not believe or have faith that God wants to restore their soul.

An unhealed hard hearted person cannot grow in the Lord.

We might grow in knowledge,

wisdom, understanding, finance, business but never develop in relationship with the Lord.

A hard heart hinders our walk with God and others.

We must do a self inspection to see if we are experiencing what the Apostle Paul wrote Timothy

2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

When we read the preceding verses we see individuals with heart conditions not conducive for Christ to shape and mold.

This list tells us of perilous times and the type of people it will produce.

They include:

1. Men that are llovers of their own selves

2. covetous

3. boasters

4. proud

5. blasphemers 

6. disobedient to parents

7. unthankful 

8. unholy

9. Without natural affection

10. trucebreakers

11. false accusers

12. incontinent

13. fierce

14. despisers of those that are good

15. Traitors

16. heady

17. highminded

18. lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God

19.  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power (thereof: from such turn away)

These are hypocrites and charlatans.

Pretenders that seduce others for their own gain rather than having influence to the benefit of others.

20. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

One can keep learning and not receive what they know due to a hard heart and wrong motives.

An unhealed person is unable to reflect agape love. Instead, wounded hearts will release judgment, criticism, accusation and pride.

A healed person's heart knows how to give mercy, forgiveness and humility.

In the Book of Malachi we read a prophecy showing the hope Israel was to have in the coming days for their redemption and vindication.

In Malachi 4 2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

We see the Sun of Righteousness rising with HEALING on behalf of them that fear the Name of the LORD.

When He rises, He will

1. Cover

2. Heal

3. Cause productivity (Go Forth)

4. Generate Growth. (Grow Up)

If a person is paralyzed from going and growing it could be a sign they are not healed.

When we read about Joseph, the Word says he PROSPERED.

While he was in prison he GREW UP.

The word prosper literally is a picture of a bowl with raised edges that is able to hold its content.

Had Joseph not been whole intern he would never have handled the challenges he faced externally.

According to history and the word, Joseph was beautiful inside and handsome outside.

When we allow God to heal us, we are able to face the worst in people that mishandled us.

Many do not grow in the Lord due to hurt, pain, abuse, trauma, and other influences that left impressions on their soul.

Although there is mental understanding, the soul of a person never receives what the mind knows due to a calloused heart. 

Allowing forgiveness to flow for self and toward others will expedite the healing process and grant a person a new life of freedom.

Matthew 6:14  For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

 15  But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

When our hearts are hard, we stop forgiving and praying for others.

Eventually our hearts grow so hard we stop asking God to forgive us.

Know that the Lord desires to heal us.

The question is, are we willing to let Him?

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin 

#WingsOfHealingKR

#KingdomReign

Do Not Touch

When we repent for what we thought, said and did against the anointed of the LORD, the sooner things will clear up in our lives.

Pride, arrogance, religiosity, haughtiness, ego, critical, bitterness all have a way of working to get us to think, act and speak in a manner that does not line up with the language of the King and the Holy Spirit.

These attitudes will have us speaking out of presumption. These presumptuous thoughts and words can begin to work counterproductive in our lives especially when we mishandle the anointed of the Lord.

When we read in 1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

 Psalm 105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

 He suffered (did not allow) no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes.

It had to do with the fact that Israel was on a journey and God Sovereignly protected them from harm.

He wanted His voice to be in His prophets so that they could be used to lead the people.

When we say "TOUCH NOT" this is not a pass for anything goes.

The Scriptues give a clear pattern in which to handle sin and offenses.

When we say "TOUCH NOT" in the context of understanding God is progressing His people, then we should never want to be a hindrance to the advancement of God's leaders or His children.

We think we can say and do anything and get away with it in our pride. Many individuals who do not understand spiritual principles in the Kingdom bring affliction on their own lives because of the things they feel and say about God's leaders.

When we touch these leaders, we are not just touching them. 

We are touching the anointing that is on their life that came from Christ.

Even when they are in sin or in error, we must be careful what we think and what we say about them. It could open up doors where we find ourselves to be wrestling with the Lord.

It is the plan of the enemy to use our voice for his ill intentions. If he can get us to have the wrong attitude, then we will speak and change things for the worst atmospherically.

Our heart will begin to manifest words that we will later regret because we will have to eat the harvest we reap.

The enemy is the accuser of the brethern. When a different spirit works to make us critical and judgmental it works to line us up with an anti Christ spirit. 

When an individual can run down the list of issues of every preacher, pastor and church leader has, but cannot see their own, they are moving by another spirit and will find themselves to fight against God.

1Ti 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

De 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Ec 10:20 Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

The words we say have a way of landing before the ones we talk about. Even when we did not think they would know or hear.

I have shared before how the heavens are always listening.

Angels and devils are listening.

Ultimately, the King of kings is listening.

 Mt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

The words we speak have impact now and in eternity.

When the king finds out what was said certainly it will cause challenges for the one who thought to curse them.

If we have found ourselves to be in this kind of place, there is still room to repent. God knows why we say what we say and do what we do.

Sometimes we need to ask for deliverance and healing. Whatever the reason for our actions, we will still have to handle the repercussions.

Allow mercy and grace to step in today and start a new season of sowing.

In His Love, 

Jesse Griffin

#KingdomReign

#KingdomCulture

Promoted For Others

When the Lord promotes His servants it is for the benefit of the people.

2Sa 5:12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for His people Israel's sake. 

When God exalts us, it is not for the benefit of self but for the Kingdom and for others.

We become blessed through the promotion but it is not just for self to be acknowledged or raised up.

It comes with great responsibility.

Hebrews 5:1 shows the duty of the High Priest to the people of Israel.

 Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

The high priest was taken from Men to be ordained for men pertaining to the things of God. The responsibilities of the High Priest was to keep Heaven and Israel  (Earth) connected. 

It was to make sure any sin or transgression was absolved through sacrifices and offerings.

 It was the responsibility to maintain a continual flow between God and Israel. They were offering up continual intercession.

We still have the responsibility of bringing gifts and sacrifices to the Lord. 

We do not bring bulls and bullocks or Lambs but,

we are to bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. We are to bring fasting.

We are to bring intercession and prayers. 

We are to bring our worship. 

We are to bring our talent and monetary blessings.

Many saints do not realize it but a true five-fold minister is a gift to the people.

Ephesians 4:8 Therefore He says, “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

He gave gifts to men and then released these gifts to the people. A person called and anointed by God is a gift given to Humanity.

This Duty and responsibility is completely birthed out of Heaven.

When God ordains a man or a woman it literally means he placed his hand and took them out to place them in. 

To set them up to cause them to stand and be permanently established for the task or work that is in front of them.

 This is for the benefit of the people that they are called to serve that they might be established.

Ephesians 4:12-13

12  for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

13  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

In order for the kingdom of heaven to be released it must be a person who has not chosen this Duty for them self but he who is called by God.

Hebrews 5: 4  Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

Aarons name means light bearer.

One cannot lead people to a light that they were not birthed out of. 

We are to bring individuals into the Light.

We are not to try and be that light or draw people to ourselves.

We have been ordained for the benefit of the people.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin 

Kingdom Reign International Ministries. 

#WhoOrdainedUs? #WhyDoWeWantPositions?

#KingdomReign

Be Endued

After Smith Wigglesworth died in 1947, doctors are said to have found that some of the bone on each of Wigglesworth's knee caps was missing.

Later, in his house, others found two indentations, about a foot apart, on the wooden floor of a corner room.

Pictured are a set of footprints left indented in the wood floor by a monk who prayed in the same spot for 20 years.

What does consistent prayer look like?

It looks like constant power!

We must pray and ask the Lord to show us how to find that secret place with Him.

Concentrated prayer in the Upper Room brought the 120 to receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and being recipients of the promises of God.

They gained the ability to have an uninterrupted fellowship with the Lord through the Spirit. 

They were empowered with gifts, boldness, confidence, new faith, power and authority.

They became sealed in their relationship and identity in Christ.

The Lord told the Apostles And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Luke 24:49

The word endued means literally to sink into clothing, put on, clothe one's self.

 In the senese of sinking into a garment; to invest with clothing, to clothe, to have put on.

The same way we put on our clothes and stretch out in them, or put on a coat and let it set on and around us is the same way we are to allow the fire of the Holy Spirit, power and authority rest on and in us.

They were BAPTIZED in the Holy Spirit amd Fire.

In Acts 2 we read 1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Let us note that they were being obedient waiting in Jerusalem. We then see the fruit of their obedience.

1. They had been in prayer

2. They were in one according (agreement)

3. A sound came forth

4. The sound originated from Heaven

5. It was like the sound of mighty rushing wind

6. The sound FILLED THE HOUSE

7. It says that they were sitting

8. The fire appears over each of them

9. The fire sits on them

10. They were all FILLED with the Holy Spirit

11. They spoke with other tongues

The SOUND FILLED the HOUSE.  Meaning it was filled up, hollowed out and made full.

They were FILLED meaning they were accomplished, filled, fulfilled and furnished.

When the Spirit sat on them He literally took a SEAT.

The Spirit of God now residing in man can legislate in the Earth matters pertaining the Kingdom.

The King was now sitting upon the Throne of the hearts of His people.

This was only accomplished through obedience and prayer. They had to remain IN PLACE until they were CLOTHED from HEAVEN!

To many times we rush out and go before we are clothed.

The scripture tells us to PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD. Ephesians 6:13

No soldier runs out NAKED into battle!

Every day find that place of prayer to draw on the Power of the Most High.

Tarry means to sit down. 

Literally sit down and take a seat until He makes you His Seat in the Earth.

Sit UNTIL YOU ARE ENDUED!

Take a SEAT UNTIL He FULLY CLOTHES YOU!

What long lasting results have we seen from persistent and consistent prayer? 

The impact can outlive our lifetime.

When it came to prayer Smith was quoted saying "I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.” - Smith Wigglesworth.

The SOUND that fills Heaven filled the house and now fills US!

The Sound of the King and His Kingdom is now in us

Make a JOYFUL SOUND!

In His Service,

Jesse Griffin 

#KingdomReign 

#UntilYouAreEndued

#GOTPRAYER

Overcoming Darkness

Make no mistake ...

A user does not miss people. They miss what people have and what that did for them.

This kind of personality can be found in the traits of Jezebelic type behavior.

They can move on from person to person with zero emotional attachment.

Don't look for tears, regret, sorrow or for them to say I miss you. 

They will have already found someone to fill the void with what they want through another person.

Like a leech, they stay attached to a person and drain them of their virtue and eventually work to diminish their value.

In Scripture we find the term horseleach which is a horse fly.

These flies could grow into massive swarms feeding off of animals depleting them.

They can swarm so massive in the nostril of a horse causing them to suffocate or overheat.

A horse cools its body down through breathing through its nostrils.

The enemy works to take and to stop up the breath we need to live. 

Proverbs 30:15  The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

16  The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Once they cannot make a natural or spiritual withdrawal from that person they will find another source.

This leaves many individuals dillisuioned as they felt purpose in the connection but upon close examination will find it was not a relationship. It was a one sided benefit to the other person. Not a mutual commitment.

When we look at outerspace and the vast universe we find what is known as a black hole.

A black hole is a sun that collapsed on itself.

Now, instead of giving light, it now has become a vortex that sucks in everything around it.

Science has shown that the gravitational pull of a black hole is strong enough to bend light.

Isn't that something. That which used to emit light has lost its power to give light and now can make light from others suns and stars bend into it.

Lucifer was known as the Morning Star or Light Bearer.

After his rebellion and being cast down he no longer emitted the light of his original design.

He does not release genuine light now, but false light.

The word tells us in 2 Corinthians 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

An angel or messenger of light.

This word transformed means to disguise or transfigure. He is not real light so must now put on an image.

A pretender. Because he stood before the Source of all life and the true Light, he knows how to look the part.

This is what happens by a person fueled by the enemy. They cover up their darkness, motives and real image through a facade.

Many times we fall for it because it looks real. With time the real identity emerges through words and actions. Eventually it becomes fully revealed what was in operation the whole time.

When this happens it can be very hurtful because things are now seen for what they really are.

This pattern of deception can be seen when a man who pursues a woman puts on an appearance but it is all an act.  A carnal man with wrong motives in hot pursuit of a woman puts his best foot forward first. Hiding and veiling his true character.

After falling for the words and acts a woman who has made herself vulnerable to this act is left devestated. She feels used and confused 

Lust, perversion, self ambitions and carnal desires all work to take advantage of another for their own gratification without caring for the well being of another.

If you find yourself to be in such a postion or know someone who is, pray that the true Light of Christ to shine on the situation.

Only the true Light can rebuke and remove darkness.

The Light of Christ cannot be overcome (John 1:5) or undone. It does not bend or bow to the darkness. Rather it reveals and removes it.

Pray for virtue to be restored and life to be poured in. Pray for the oil and the wine to heal the wounds. Pray for fresh balm.

We will find time, substance, virtue, emotion, will, have all been depleted from a person being used.

Pray the Lord to replenish and fill in what is lacking. He fills all things Ephesians 1:23

There is life after abuse

There is life after being used

There is life after being deceived

There is life after being seduced

There is life after Jezebel

There is life after ____________

There is LIFE! Reach for it!

There is hope to grab ahold of to be pulled out of the pit of despair and depression.

God wants to pull us up and out and move us from despair to being repaired.

Part of being repaired means we must be joined with the right person or people. 

We must be paired with those who will pour in what is for our best interest according to the original pattern of the Maker.

 Romans 15:13  Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin

#KingdomReign 

Gentle Reminders

Gentle Reminders

In the rays of the morning light

I beheld a beautiful sight.

A mark before my eyes 

to help me realize

What the Lord would say to me. *JMG

When the conditions are just right, we can see things we normally do not or cannot see.

These moments have a way of catching our attention and to cause us to ponder, contemplate and meditate.

On this particular morning, as the rays of light shone in from the East, I could see a handprint on the living room window.

This handprint was from my two year old daughter.

What made this stand out was the fact I had just cleaned this window inside and out the other day. There were no other marks on it.

We may not realize it, but we have canvases all around us. Everything we touch, we leave an impression on it. We leave our fingerprints and a trace of our DNA.

In the same way as we go about our day as we touch natural objects,  we too touch the lives of people.

As we go about our day as mature believers we should not only leave accidental impressions but purposeful marks.

We are called to be the Lords hands and feet.

In 2 Corinthians we are admonished to come out of the world and be separate.

The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Cor 6:16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

We cannot leave Kingdom impressions while still bound by worldly matters.

2 Timothy 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

 4  No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

In the Old Covenant we see God dwelling in the midst of His people and moving as a Cloud by day and a Pillar of Fire by night.

In the New Covenant He dwells in us and He moves through us.

God in us wants to take a walk and use our hands to touch others in a way He leaves His DNA and mark on their lives.

Yeshua was the Fulness of the Godhead bodily. The Word tells us that He went about doing GOOD healing ALL that were oppressed by the Devil. Acts 10:38

We are told in John 7: 38 that out of us shall flow RIVERS of LIVING WATER.

This word living is important because it refers to drinkable water. Not dead, stagnant or polluted waters but fresh clean and refreshing.

LIFE GIVING

 If the Kingdom and the Holy Spirit is in us,, then we too can go about doing good.

Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. View more

2Th 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing

We need to continue in well doing. This means what we pour out on others needs to be according to the Greek understanding of the word well

beautiful, handsome, excellent, eminent, choice, surpassing, precious, useful, suitable, commendable, admirable

beautiful to look at, magnificent

good, excellent in its nature and characteristics, and therefore well adapted to its ends

genuine, approved

precious

praiseworthy, noble

beautiful by reason of purity of heart and life, and hence praiseworthy

morally good, noble

honourable, conferring honour

affecting the mind agreeably, comforting and confirming.

What impressions are we leaving? Our words and works will be revealed at an appointed time in the right light.

All of our words, works and deeds shall be brought up before He who is the Light.

May we find that they have passed His test.

May we produce works that last.

In His Love,

Jesse Griffin