Psalm 68:11 - July 8, 2009

Ps 68:11 "The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it." NIV

This passage reflects the prophetic nature of God and the means of accomplishing His purposes that He has ordained in the earth! From the very beginning of time God spoke and His purpose came for as the earth was created and man was placed in dominion over it. God entrusted man with His very image and endowed him with authority and power to rule over God’s creation as a steward of the garden of God. It was not the work of man’s flesh that provided this stewardship but the words of his mouth that was the means of stewarding this creation. When God created the animals to fill the earth He commissioned Adam to speak to each animal, naming them on God’s behalf. It was not until Adam sinned and the earth came under a curse that Adam had to labor by the sweat of his brow to bring forth fruit from the earth. Until that time all things simply responded to the command of God to be fruitful and multiply.
In this the age of the church as we walk with our Lord on this journey of restoring His dominion into ever setting where it was previously forfeited by Adam’s disobedience God is at work to restore through the Body of Christ as we grow to maturity and Christ likeness. God has placed a prophetic spirit upon then church and given her the spirit of faith with a commission to listen to God’s voice and to speak what He is saying. Jesus described the role of the Holy Spirit’s ministry and taught us in John 16:13 that the Holy Spirit “will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears.” God the Father speaks forth into His purposes in the same way that He did from the beginning. The Holy Spirit then communicates those words into the lives of God’s people and we become the voice of God in releasing those purposes into the earth. The prophetic spirit is at work to awaken faith in the lives of all those who will listen and through this faith God now releases many spokesmen to partner with Him in His creative work of restoration. In every setting where He can find a man or woman of faith who will agree with His word and His promises He begins to speak forth His will. Man places his heart into agreement with what God has spoken and through the exercising of his faith speaks forth those purposes. Paul identifies this principle in II Co. 4:13 as he says, “It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.”
It is vital that we understand the means through which God is accomplishing His mission in the earth. Through the power of His implanted word in the hearts of His servants God is raising up a many membered voice, a great company of spokesmen who will agree with what He is speaking forth instead aligning their hearts with the broken conditions that their eyes behold. Faith looks beyond the visible to the invisible, beyond the temporal to the eternal and agrees with the heavenly realms where God’s kingdom already is manifest. Through faith we speak God’s purpose forth and the same creative power that was released in the creation of the earth is loosed into the situations where God commands us to speak. Through this means the kingdom of God is proclaimed and the seeds of life are implanted and begin to grow. We must see that which is not as if it was and speak to the potential that is found in the kingdom of God. It is time to call forth the long awaited promises of God and to place our feet on the ground of His purposes with a resolute faith. Through this means the faith of one becomes the faith of many and the principles of kingdom multiplication are set in motion to expand God’s dominion in every setting where this obedient faith is found.