Woman of Ill Repute

You know yesterday was an incredible day at evangelism, I couldn't believe how God used me to encourage, heal and uplift several different people!!! But the most memorable is this story:-

My power cable for my computer had been fried by Zesa so I went to see Stephen (a computer wiz kid) to ask his advise and he told me where to go etc but he was in the process of moving offices (he had told me where they were moving to) and I felt the nudging of the H.S. to pray for him, but didn’t as I was in a hurry and late for evangelism! Then after evangelism, on the walk back to the church (also I was on my own, am normally with the girls!) guess what, I happen to see Stephen again, at the new offices – this was no co-incidence and knew God had me on a mission!! So I ran over to him as he was about to leave! We starting talking and I said I felt God wanted me to pray for him and his business and the move etc but he said no – a woman cannot pray for a man out loud, they can pray privately but not aloud!! I’ve known Stephen, professionally for years but didn’t know he was a JW. Now normally I wouldn’t even get into a conversation with a JW as it always lands up as a mind battle over doctrine etc but I just bubbled out the love of God and was just sharing how good God is etc (I think he was amazed?) and he kept saying I’m so impressed by your boldness and courage in sharing your faith and he kept saying there you go again you are preaching (presumably woman aren’t allowed to preach either?) then I left!

But on thinking about this I asked the Lord for an answer in the Word (did you know that there is an answer to every life problem and situation in the bible?) and I was reminded of when Jesus was anointed with oil and had His feet washed with her tears and hair Luke 7:37. This story has always touched my heart and I have written on it before in the light that Jesus values and treasures every person, having unconditional love and acceptance for them and this is what changed them forever!! Once they understood that He saw their value and worth, then they were able to see themselves for who they really were! Valuable and precious in His sight!!

But today I saw this story in an even more compelling, awe inspiring light!!! Jesus allowed this woman, who was not a woman of royalty, nobility or of high standing in the community, to anoint him for his death and burial! The climax and ultimate purpose for His coming to earth, the darkest and most extremely difficult trail and testing of absolute surrender, submission and obedience for an act He knew would be His ultimate test on this earth, in a human body, suffering excruciating pain, humiliation, rejection, the most difficult time of His entire ministry on earth and He was anointed, equipped and prepared for this mission, by a woman of ill repute, a prostitute, the lowest of lowest of all woman!!

Think about this for a minute, meditate on this, I mean how is this possible?? The King of Glory, the Most High, the Ancient of Days humbled himself unto obedience Phil 2:8 and then allowing a woman to anoint Him. What an act of humility, even more so, I think, in the washing of the disciple’s feet? What an example for us to follow and if Jesus can allow a woman to minister to Him, before His darkest hour, surely we as humans, or men can allow a woman to minister to them in prayer and supplication?? Anyway these are just my thoughts and one that will always stick out vividly in my mind and will always bring out awe and wonder in my heart!!

Birthing Your Dream

BIRTHING YOUR DREAM 18 June 2010

There are times when God places a desire or dream in your heart, it starts out as a seed and just like the seed of an embryo it starts to grow and develop until finally the child or dream is birthed and your harvest becomes a reality! This is how the process develops:-

“Dreams are made of this, seeds that I drop in your heart, water them, nurture them, feed them and they will grow into a harvest.” SJ

“When you have a big dream, small minded people will always be jealous and will criticize. Don’t be distracted by what people say and don’t waste time trying to win over your critics. The enemy fights you, not for your present but for your future and will try to get you to give up on your dream. You must be willing to press through opposition, remember the greater the pain, the closer you are to birth!” Joel Osteen

“Write the vision and make it plain so that the one who reads it may run” Hab 2:2. If you write the vision it will come to pass, you’ll make it happen! It’s not enough to think about it, you have to commit it to writing – if you write it down you will make it happen. Then confess your vision and rehearse it daily in front of the mirror, the mirror being the Word of God. Begin to read it as if it’s prophecy – begin to declare it and decree it “thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established and light shall shine on your way” Job 22:28. You have got to rehearse your vision on a daily basis until it becomes so internalized and becomes such a part of you that you cannot separate yourself from your dream. If you will persist, confess, decree and declare there will come a day, because of the laws of faith, travail and attraction, that stuff will begin to show up in your life and you’ll start checking off every dream, every vision, every desire.” Mark Chironna


1. Conception - when God deposits His vision in our spirit.

2. Believe - this is the first trimester and is very fragile (just like when you first plant a seed you have to nurture it, watering it twice a day until it becomes stronger and more mature). In this period you will fight doubt, unbelief, double-mindedness (to keep changing your mind) and wavering (doubtingly question, indecision, divided interests, unsteady, to sway to and fro – going from faith to fear) James1:8, 4:8, Rom 4:20, Prov 4:27.

3. Envision - seeing your dream without evidence! This is the part where you have to focus on your dream and visualize it! Focus means to put blinkers on (like race horses) and place your concentration in one direction, not allowing any distraction Prov 4:25. Focus – “the point at which concentrated light, heat or sound-waves meet. When we concentrate and centre our attention and activity in one direction, light (revelation), and sound (inspiration), begin to make a clear and distinct image. Once the image is clear, visualization can now be effective, bringing the dream to realization! If you can see it you can have it! The creative power of God, He saw it first, in His imagination, then spoke it into being! Our focus must not be on what we are going through but on what we are going to”.

4. Position - who we hang out with! Make sure you stay very clear of negative, naysayers who are dream blockers! Negative and critical words, if you listen to them and receive them can make you lose focus and abort your dream very quickly!! Sometimes it’s important to keep the dream to yourself, especially in the early, fragile stages to avoid abortion!! Don’t share your dream with just anyone, wait for the right people that God will place in your path to be able to share your dream with! You will eventually need to speak your vision into being but wait until it is well and truly established in your heart first.

5. Endure - waiting!! One of the hardest trimesters as waiting and not seeing results can cause you to doubt, waver and faint (give up, cave in, lose heart or quit) Gal 6:9. This is where patience, endurance and standing firm are vital 1 Pet 5:9-10, James 4:7, Heb 6:12, James 1:3, Rom 5:3-4, 1 Pet 1:7, Rev 3:10. In Greek the word “Patience” means to be constantly consistent, the same way all the time. Consistency is the place where the power is manifested.” “The word is a seed, plant it and keep it in the ground with patience”. Creflo Dollar.

6. Enlarge - stretching and feeling very uncomfortable! Ps 4:1 This is where fear, panic intimidation and overwhelming feelings of inadequacies and insecurities will overtake you! Your dream is always much bigger than you and your abilities and this can cause you to retreat but “if you act (obedience and humbling yourself in yielding to the H.S. and allowing Him to do the work through you, not you trying to do it yourself.) on what God said fear finds if difficult to defeat you. Obedience is required to experience forward motion. See yourself as God sees you, go to the Word and meditate on what God says, cast down vain imaginations (what ifs) 2 Cor 10:5, Eph 4:23. Right believing brings right actions. Our greatest challenge is to let go and let God!” Ray McCauley. “Fear = False Evidence that Appears Real. Fear and faith are mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed and cannot exist in the same heart, mouth or mind, at the same time.” Rod Parsley. “Fear tolerated is faith contaminated. Faith works by love and fear operates by selfishness. Fear is perverted faith. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God Rom 10:17, fear comes by hearing the devil’s words which are contrary to God’s word. Faith and fear is a law which comes in through by images, words and through your mouth. The greatest fear we face is the fear that what God has said won’t work, we have no confidence in His word and also when we doubt His love for us 1 Jn 4:18, 2 Tim 1:7” Creflo Dollar. It’s very important here not to allow fear to come out of your mouth through your words, as we have seen that words are the second stage of creation – for the negative or positive. If you do slip in this area be very quick to repent so that your words will not produce a negative result! Sometimes fear will remain but we need to continue anyway “Doing it Afraid”, courage is doing something even in spite of and in the presence of fear Josh 1:9, Deut 31:6, 1 Chron 28:20, Isah 41:10.

7. Prepare - get ready for it! Action! Start taking positive action towards your dream. The second step of faith is action as “faith without works is dead” James 2:20. You need to act on what you believe and begin to move in that direction, despite negative circumstances, and unseen evidence Heb 11:1, until you see the result.
8. Labour - overwhelming feelings, great pain and travail, opposition, rejection and obstacles – you need to jump over your obstacles, the devil will try his hardest to get you to abort your dream with fear, distractions, persecution and trouble. You are to push through the pain of difficulties and remember the battle is not yours it’s the Lords 2 Chron 20:15,17. Don’t give up just before your breakthrough, as this is when it is the toughest, but persevere through the pain and obstacles and you will receive great joy! Isah 66:9, Ps 126:5.

9. Realize - Dream is finally born and becomes a reality! Take time to celebrate and honour God for you success. Remember to give God the glory and don’t forget to testify of His Goodness! Rev 12:11, Deut 8:17.


Something To Live For

You must have a hope to inspire you. You must
have a path to pursue. You must have an object
to work for, a plan and a purpose in view.

You must have a sense of direction or lost you’ll
go drifting along. You must have a faith that
will guide you when life holds no light and no song.
You must have a stake in the future. Though
swiftly the years may depart. You’ll always
have something to live for – if you have a
dream in your heart. Patience Strong

Thanks Joyce

Dear Joyce and Dave 5 June 2010

First of all Happy, Happy Birthday for yesterday!! I hope you have such a wonderful, refreshing, exciting time full of many delightful surprises over your birthday and during your stay in Zimbabwe!!

Just want to say thank you so much for coming to Zimbabwe and in particular to Bulawayo, where I come from (a city that usually gets left out, so it was such a joy to have you!). We have all been in such excitement and anticipation for your visit here, waiting to see with expectation what the Lord is going to do through you!! And also thank you for your amazing generosity in giving us two of your bestsellers, THANK YOU!! I know they will be such a blessing to so many people!!

What you said about Zimbabwe is so spot on, that we will do “new things”, new wine in new wine skins! Also God raising up many woman! This was also prophesied by Cindy Jacobs “The river is going to flow through Zimbabwe and I see a powerful torrent of water, a mighty rushing torrent, many fish…. An army of woman with the Deborah anointing will march across the land. They will be like a net all over Zimbabwe with prayer. With a powerful anointing the woman first and men following.”.

About 3 times when we have been praying for this conference I have seen a picture of at least 2 huge fishing nets full to capacity of fish, just like when Peter cast his nets into the deep! I truly believe that the Lord has used you as a catalyst to bring a breakthrough and a shift in the spirit realm in Zimbabwe that will result in a huge, unprecedented harvest of souls, reaching and sweeping far across this land, like a domino effect even well after you have gone! I also saw, during praise and worship at the meeting on Thursday, a large deep spans of water which appeared to have the wind of the Spirit hovering over it! There have been many prophesies over the years that God will shine His light and glory upon this land and that it will shine right across the continent of Africa, affecting many nations, bringing healing and restoration. A key scripture for Zimbabwe has been Isah 60:1-4 .. “His glory shall be seen on you and nations shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising…” I really believe now is that time!! Wow so exciting!!!

Also what you said that maybe God will even send evangelist from here to America and other nations! God will be raising up many ambassadors from this land to send to the nations! Because of the extreme difficulties and hardships we have faced over the years, it has prepared us in advance to help other nations that will go through difficulties and hardships, like we have never seen before, as the darkness will cover the earth but we as believers will be a bright and shining light into that darkness!

Just one last thing about Zimbabwe, a prophecy on 20th Oct 08 “Keep your eyes on Me, your hope and trust in Me. There will also be a mighty revival across the land! There will be a sweet smelling sacrifice of praise rising up to Me. Joy will explode and captivate hearts!

Nations will be changed because of this! Mighty kings will come here to see the glory of the Lord. Joy, unspeakable joy will release this land!”

“From the rising of the sun to its going down, My name is to be praised.” Psm 113:3

Once again, THANK YOU so much Joyce for your faithfulness and obedience and sacrifice in coming to Zimbabwe, I know your rewards will be great!! I hope you will be the first of many more that will come!

Giving A Weapon

Hi Peter 5 May 2010
You see I have seen things in you that God wants to use!! You have the gift of giving!! You are a cheerful and generous giver and this is the kind of giver God really loves!!! 2 Cor 9:7 amplified says “Let each one give as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves (He takes pleasure in, prizes above other things, and is unwilling to abandon or do without) a cheerful (joyous, “prompt to do it”) giver [whose heart is in his giving]. The next verse is a very popular one and follows the principal of giving vs 8 “And God is able to make all grace (every favour and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].” Can I go on as there is more vs 10-11 “And God Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness and charity]. Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous…”. Luke 6:38 says “Give, and [gifts] will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others], it will be measured back to you.”

You see you have already been operating in this very principal in the past but maybe because of the bad economy, recession etc you might have slowed down or been more reluctant to do it because of the uncertainty of the future? But when you can understand that God is not worried or concerned about the recession, (in fact God has always used recession or famine to extremely bless His people!! He loves to prove that nothing is impossible for Him!!) if you can see how great He is and that His resources are totally unlimited and without end, then you don’t have to worry about it, if He is your source (if your job or income is your source then yes worry!!!) He is miraculously able to supply your every need and desires no matter what the conditions are!!! After all He has streets of pure gold, walls that are made of 12 layers of precious gems and gates made of pearls. He owns the cattle on the 1000 hills, the earth is His footstool and He has pet names for each of the stars (think about this for a minute, they reckon there are over 100 billion galaxies!!!!). Jesus said that if we put Him first He will add or supply all these other things that we need as well Matt 6:33, Luke 12:31-33.

There is a movie called the “Flight of the Intruder” basically the story is about these air force pilots in the Vietnam war. Well they were sent on missions every night to go and bomb some obscure place in the south, but they never hit any targets and their efforts were futile. Well the one guy got the idea in his head that if they could venture up north, where they weren’t allowed to go, they could hit some significant targets, a main airfield and weapons site. Well he convinced his mate to do this secretly even though they knew it would cost them a court martial!!! They did this and had a huge success but of course were in big trouble!!! Anyway the purpose of this story it to show you a truth about how in the past when you operated on this principal of giving you hit a few targets and had a measure of success but God now wants to focus you and align you up for some major targets!!! If you will listen to Him and obey Him (this is the hard part, cos God often tells us to do things that make absolutely no sense to us and even seem impossible!!!) but if we will simply obey He will do amazing things!!! You see giving is a form of weaponry in God’s hands it has the power to open doors and the windows of heaven that could not otherwise be opened! It also has the power to bring miracles of healing, restoration, deliverance etc. It is who God is! He is a giver, He gave His one and only Son to mankind and it is the foundation to the way everything operates on this earth in the positive or negative Gen 8:22 says “While the earth remains, seed – time and harvest… shall not cease.” Gal 6:7 “For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.” You reap what you sow!!

What I mean about using you to target certain areas is this. It is no good to just haphazardly give to anything or anybody as you feel sorry for someone etc!! No you have to be careful that you are not misled to give into an area that will have no effect and will not produce a harvest. One example is this, the devil loves to get people to sow to their own “flesh” (or their own desires) and usually they are impatient to wait so will put it on credit, this just brings added bondage and you will only reap sorrow and corruption! Does that make sense? This is what that article was referring to as “good soil”. Just like a farmer will never sow into dead infertile soil so the same applies to us if we want to see an abundant harvest. The soil represents a person, or a church or a ministry (such as one feeding the poor or helping unwed mothers, or helping widows etc etc etc). Basically it really means doing what God tells you to do, even if it seems crazy!!! But I can give you a couple of clues, the things that are closest to God’s heart are 1/ evangelism 2/ widows 3/ orphans 4/ the Jewish people.

There are other things to understand, like naming your seed i.e. you sow for a specific reason and harvest. Example, this problem you are having with the corned beef, if you sow a specific seed to where God directs you, for this specific problem it will produce a positive result of open doors and favour. Other examples could be for healing or broken relationships etc! Harvest are not always finances, such things as health are far more precious than finances aren’t they??? My greatest harvest was my house. It is only recently I have discovered it was because of sowing into the “Family Blessing” (explained in the other article, just a quick note here, even if your parents are passed you can still ‘adopt’ a granny or grandpa by helping or supporting them!), which I knew nothing about at the time! I was there for my parents when they were both suffering with terminal diseases etc. I was literally given this house as I had a small amount in my account at the time, it wasn’t without a 2 year struggle but just know it was an incredible miracle and what’s even more exciting is that God has told me “What I have done for you before is nothing compared to what I’ll do for you!!” Wow!!

Hey whew I know this is a heck of a lot to absorb and take in, I am also still learning this and have been consistently sowing even when things have been very difficult for me (sowing in a valley, sacrificial sowing, sowing even at the expense of your own needs) and I know my harvest is just right around the corner (this is also not a financial harvest am expecting, although those are the fringe benefits!!). But wait and see, when you see the incredible thing that God is about to do in my life then you will take note of what I’ve been saying here, because I assure you it all has to do with this principal of sowing!!!!

Hey sorry one last thing, but the most important thing I nearly forgot to mention is about the tithe! As none of the above will have any results if you are not a tither!!! Mal 3:8-11 “Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob and defraud Me. But you say, in what way do we rob or defraud You? [You have withheld your] tithes and offerings. You are cursed with the curse, for you are robbing Me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse (God’s house, the church), that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer (this actually means the seed eater) [insects and plagues] for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground…” It’s important to understand here, the devourer can destroy your harvest, the tithe allows God to protect you from the “devourer”.

Not to go into too much detail as this is a huge subject but from the garden of Eden God said to man you can have everything except this one tree (His tenth or tithe) of course man disobeyed and that’s what brought the curse upon all mankind and the land!! It represents the “first fruit”, the first part of any income and is 10% of any income you earn, God expects us to give this to His house (usually the church you go to). It’s not the money God wants even though the church does need finances to run but it’s to prove that He has first place and has first priority in your life!! When you disobey this commandment you automatically, by default, bring a curse upon yourself and family!! Many people are not seeing fulfillment of all God’s promises because of this very important issue!!

The Tithe

I’ve been learning a lot lately about the importance of tithing Mal 3:10, Lev 27:30, Prov 3:9. It is such an important issue to God that when man violates it he brings a curse upon himself Mal 3:9, in fact this is the cause that brought the “fall of man” that cursed the whole human race and the ground!! Adam and Eve ate of the tithe. The one tree that was in the garden that God said they could not eat from was His tenth. You see He freely gave the whole earth and all that’s in it to man but He says that one tenth of everything is His and we are not to touch it.

Have you ever wondered why the Jewish people are God’s chosen people and why it is the land of Israel, being such a small piece of land and desert too, why is it such a strategic and hot spot of the world??? It’s because of all the people of the earth God’s tenth is the Jewish people and of all the nations of the world Israel is His tenth!! That’s why the greatest battle of mankind, Armageddon (it will take 7 months for the Israelis to bury the dead), will be fought over Israel and Jerusalem its capital (when Jesus returns He rules from Jerusalem). You see man handed over dominion of the earth to Satan when he sinned but the only place he cannot touch is Israel as it’s God’s tenth hence this huge battle to try and possess what is God’s. The Antichrist will also try and annihilate the Jewish people but God has a place prepared for them at Petra where they will be hidden, fed and protected, during the Tribulation period Rev 12:6, Isah 33:16.

That is why God said whoever blesses the Jews will be blessed but whoever curses them will be cursed Gen 12:3. Have you noticed the Jewish people are automatically blessed wherever they go? The reason why USA has been blessed and prosperous all these years is because of their support for Israel (but this will not be so for very long, the US will soon betray Israel and all hell will break loose on them because of it!!! Jer 51:24). And to be honest the reason why Zim is cursed is because we are in alliance with Israel’s enemies!!

You see the whole purpose of the tithe is “First Fruits”. It’s putting God in His rightful place, First Place, on the top of the list so to speak, and not on the bottom!!! Think about it even your quiet time with the Lord is first thing in the morning. It’s the “first fruit” of the day!!

When you are obedient and faithful with your tithe God will open His hand, the heavens, towards you but if you eat the tithe the heavens will shut! God first tests you with the little Lk 16:10 to see if you will be faithful, even when it’s hard and difficult to tithe, to put God first and above your own needs then He will entrust to you more. Unless this principal is well and truly established in the little, you will find it even more difficult to tithe when you have much!

When you are faithful and trustworthy with earthly riches, your money, possessions and treasures (this could be things like your career, gifts & talents, people) then God can trust you with the true riches which are far more valuable and precious than earthly riches. This is the heavenly currency, the anointing! God does not give the anointing to anyone only those who have been tried and tested, who are faithful, true, humble and obedient!

Prospective for 2010

12th January 2010

Well what I'm hearing from different sources is that 2010 is going to be a great year of harvest and abundance!! God is doing a “new” thing Isa 43:19, Josh 1:1-6, a year for possessing the land and entering into our Canaan.

Heard a parallel of when children of Israel left Egypt with Moses - God made a distinct difference between His children and Egyptians Ex 8:22-23, Mal 3:18. The darkness covered the Egyptians but in Goshen there was light Ex 10:21-23, Isa 60:1 and while the darkness covers the earth the light will shine on us and just like with the plagues of Moses, none of them touched the children of God, in fact they ended up leaving Egypt with all their family (none will be lost) all their livestock and all the silver and gold!!!

Also a year of restoration, all that which was lost or stolen will be restored!! We are going to plunder the enemies camp and take back what belongs to us 1 Sam 30:8 (yeah about time hey!!!). Also another thing for Zim, someone said that the wicked will be punished. Well that ties in with a prophecy from our pastor who had just completed a 40 day fast, said on 15/02/09 "there are people that will be given life sentences and their wealth brought to nothing and their children will not be allowed in Zim, they will be in exile, in fact no-one will have them". A good example of this is Saddam Hussain who thought he was invincible and untouchable???????


HARVEST HOUSE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION FOR 2010

1. Year of governmental anointings
2. Year of major shifts in the Spirit realm
3. Year of increase and abundance
4. Year of restoration
5. Year of Harvest.