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We are responsible for the fruit we bear.

In Mark 11, Jesus cursed a fig tree after he approached it in hunger only to discover that it was fruitless. The fully bloomed leaves were usually a sign that fruit was abounding. However, this particular tree was claiming to have fruit that it had never produced.

We all bear fruit. Hopefully, our lives show things like love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

But, without God’s Spirit helping us, it’s harder to be good. Even with God, we are mostly just works in progress.

That’s why Jesus said, “I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.” John 14:16

It’s often more natural for our lives to show things like prejudice, arrogance, anger, sulky-sadness, worry, meanness, impatience, rudeness, intolerance, cheating, lying, harshness, and hot-headedness.

If you’re a Christian, your nature has changed. Some things about you are immediately different. Other unfortunate behaviors will be tamed by God’s Spirit.

Holy Spirit will convict you, meaning He will cause you to see your error. It’s your responsibility to accept His help in these highlighted areas and give attention to the behaviors that He has convicted.

“When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment” John 16:8

This is His way of working good fruit in you. Still, you have to take ownership and responsibility of your own fruit.

“For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.”

Ephesians 5:5

Dismissive excuses aren’t ok.

You can’t write off your bad actions to things like:

God loves me just the way I am.

In Actuality, God’s love is working to perfect you…if you’ll just stop making excuses.

Everything about a fruit tree is driven by its purpose to bear fruit.

1. It grows, reaching for the sun, so it can bear fruit.

2. It eats, taking in necessary nutrients, so it can bear fruit.

3. It drinks, absorbing the rainwater, so it can bear fruit.

The fruit-tree is a living organism with one incessant drive. It will do all that it has to do in efforts to bear fruit.

Likewise, bearing good spiritual fruit is the responsibility of a believer.

Eph 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children

That is, unless you’re ok with being a jerk, grieving the spirit, and facing judgement.

Be fruitful. He will help you.

Galatians 1:12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Prophetic people, Holy Spirit people, intercessors and the like, should be especially guarded and protective over their spiritual senses in these last days.

Many people have already allowed their spiritual filters to be tainted by over-abundant horizontal information.

Let me explain: prophets are especially peculiar because they know things that can only be revealed to them by Heaven. However, in an age of information overload, we are inundated with nonstop airwaves touting news, opinions, angles, scoops, and narratives driven by man-made media machines.

Alas, it has also become a trend in many ministry circles to be aligned with preferential political figures, views, and governmental allegiances.

Politics, conspiracies, and idolatry have skewed some people’s dream life, making them think their governmental dreams are from God when many of these are just subconscious effects of already existing opinions established from worldly inclinations.

Consequently, when spiritual voices are being too heavily influenced by the systems of this world, their filters can become clogged up by their own soul, soul ties, and subconsciousness.

A person’s soul is their mind, will, and emotion. Soul-ish impressions are not easy to differentiate from spiritual revelations.

Too many contemporary Christians are being moved by their mind, their logic, their intellect…or, by what the Word calls a way that seems right.

Proverbs 16:25There is a way which seems right to a man,But its end is the way of death

Furthermore, many good, moral people are being duped by emotional trickery. This is the undercurrent of the Antichrist that is already at work. No other force in history has had the subtle and subliminal powers to deceive like the antichrist will have.

The antichrist is probably alive today.

It takes great maturity to understand ones own vulnerabilities. True prophetic insight is a narrow way. Accordingly, it seems that few are finding this path.

Another problem I aforementioned is soul-ties. This is a real tactic of strong demonic forces to ensnare godly influencers.

These soul ties are formed in spiritual people by relationships/friendships, positions/boards, money, gifts, flattery, and special invites to events, gatherings or conference calls.

Prophets are NOT called to any mountain of this world. They are:

to be sanctified unto the Lord, to knowing Him, and going from Him and His mountain…to whomever/wherever He sends them.

Many different prophetic figures in Scripture had influence with governmental leaders. Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, Daniel, and Samuel are some of these. Still, you will find that their strongest allegiance had to be to God. And, sometimes God ordered them to give hard words, rebukes, and warnings or judgements on the governmental leader.

Do we have a prophet today that could/would do that?

Therefore, spiritual people should be careful to not cater to sides, parties, or any earthly affiliations that might unknowingly lend to subconscious impressions, that in-turn affect their dream life and other revelatory pipelines.

Prophets, apostles, intercessors, and spiritual people must be consecrated, sanctified (set apart), wholly devoted to God alone.

I’ve always adored the idea of originality, and authenticity. By originality, I mean the thought, the message, or the art came from somewhere inside of you. Such treasure comes to us through inspiration, or pondering and meditating on the hunches, imaginations and ideological scents that we track down. Also, it comes through work…through editing, or chiseling away at raw chunks of deep feelings.

And, when I say authenticity, I mean a very similar thing. It’s so important that we find our voice, our sound, our style, our connection with our genealogical and geographical roots. Our wells run deeper than we probably realize. Unfortunately, however, music, ministry, philosophy, and art are all too prone to replication, and duplication.

John Prine, who recently died from the COVID-19, felt like his sound came from Kentucky. But, that bewildered even him. Prine grew up in Illinois. Nevertheless, his parents were from Kentucky and he spent many of his summers in Kentucky. Later in life, Prine recognized his voice was coming from that well; that geographical well, that ancestral well. His voice had roots.

I celebrate creativity. The brilliant nature of God shines through a person when they give themselves to their creative gifting.

Another cookie cutter—copycat—is probably not what we need. We need identity. Our churches need their own unique fingerprints. What’s the DNA of your sound? Your art is waiting to be discovered, to be valued, to be set free.

My daddy mined the mountains for coal and money. My Heavenly Father mined Calvary for destiny and victory. I…I mine my insides for the stories, the dreams, and the spirit.

There’s treasure inside of you. Take the time to find it. Value it. Dig for it. Chase after the sound, the gift, the voice, the thoughts, the God that waits within.

This treasure isn’t discovered by trying to be like whatever is popular, hip, trendy, or cool.

Find your voice. Find you. Embrace your art, your gift, your song, your roots…your well.

Matt 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how [a]can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

My sister recently had multiple dreams about salt mines. She asked me, “what could this mean?”

Well, consider that salt is mined from the earth. And, consider too that you are made from the earth. There’s salt (treasure, tastiness, value) within.

Mystics like Madame Guyon spent their time finding God within. The invaluable principles of this monastic lifestyle are quietness, stillness, and listening.

Mine your salt. Have alone time with God.

Find the treasure and give your life to it. Become it. Be it.

The last time the bars were closed down in Kentucky…God did it. It was the Second Great Awakening.

The original camp meetings and outpourings that occurred at Red River Meeting House and Cane Ridge Meeting House caused such a deep transformation in the cultural fabric of Kentucky that the morality of this society was converted.

One of the biggest evidences of this great work of redemption and revival was the mass deliverance from alcohol across the badlands of Kentucky.

Kentucky had developed a reputation of being rough, sinful, intoxicated, and quarrelsome. However, when the Spirit of God began to brood over the land, changes quickly transpired. People changed. Roughnecks, gamblers, and alcoholics were beautifully saved and set free from their previous lifestyles of sin.

For a couple hundred years, many, if not most, of Kentucky’s counties remained dry.

More recently, backsliding has been the new staple of Kentucky’s culture. More and more counties have been turning wet.

Kentucky’s new identity is Bourbon whiskey. Most of the world’s Bourbon is made in Kentucky—a fact the state is proud of, a fact that is embraced and heralded.

Unfortunately, the church has also been weak when tempted by this evil. More and more Christians are partaking of alcohol with no shame.

At the same time, Preachers are afraid to preach against sin.

Some Preachers are completely deceived by the apostasy of the age. Their eyes have been blinded. Their consciences have been seared. Their thinking has been gobbled up and rewired by demons of deception and doctrines of devils.

Drunken with deception and stuck in a backslidden state… Kentucky, with so many other folks from around the world, is now sick.

But, allow me to point out that there was first a sickness of mind, nerves, and emotions that spread quietly, creeping it’s way across the land. This soul- sickness left people vulnerable to the allure of drugs. Thus, the drug-riddled problems have been mounting with little resistance or solution.

Yet, the church didn’t effectively confront the stronghold of pharmakeia. Instead, the church allowed the government to try to wage war on drugs. But this war can’t be won by fighting in the flesh and blood realm.

As of now, too many generations have come and gone, lost in wandering. Children from every spectrum of humanity have been affected.

The pharmakeia devil has opened the door to many other demons, especially those that alter the minds, demons of deception.

With the influx of demons into the mind of society there has been a weakened immune system in regards to morality and justice.

Sadly, I say…Welcome to the backslidden era, where the alcohol is flowing and marijuana is becoming legal. Sin is ok because grace is the new god. All the while, the pulpit has become our generation’s biggest coward.

Fast forward and here we are again: the bars are closed. Interestingly, this time the church is also closed.

Folks are panicked and hiding as the corona champion stomps around and taunts its threats.

Obviously, we need a win. We need a Joshua. We need a David. We need a new day.

So, let fear go to Hell. Let the lies and curses be shut up. And, let the head that has been filled with a deceived mind, be cut off.

Something sinister has been trying to take our land. Nevertheless, I hear the Spirit saying a radical, sanctified, wildness is stirring. The little people are about to rise up.

A day of no more wandering, and no more cowering. A day of killing corona and taking back our land is now upon us.

Crazy anointings are about to burst forth. Remember when destined men roared with anointed slingshots, sticks, coats, handkerchiefs and aprons, even their shadows were packing power? I believe God is about to release such men and women again with original identities and unique anointings.

Furthermore, a new breed of remnant men and women of God are fixing to come on the scene. These wild but godly ones will be revival warriors. A fervency and fire of revival will flow out of them. And, they will exist with an edge, like weaponry that has been readied for this hour.

The eleventh hour anointing is coming. It will equip the church with the same wages (anointings) of previous hours. We will be lacking for nothing.

The great Shepherd is about to walk us out of this valley.

The day is hastening. History’s greatest revival will emerge as Corona exits.