This is a word specifically for South Florida. I am including
it because I feel that is it broadly applicable to many other areas.
January 25, 1999
Finger of God
The Lord says to His Church in South Florida:
Just as your physical environment and climate and economy
differs from many other areas so does your spiritual climate differ from many other areas. For I have
made you a conspicuous area and I have graced you with much, says the Lord, that you may be a
lighthouse unto Me. And the enemy has perverted many of the resources that I have given unto you.
And they have come against you in a heavy onslaught.
And there are many things that I expect from you. And as My
church is fragmented, and divided and split and has lost its common focus, the establishment of My
church, and the establishment of My church as a lighthouse, and as you have continued in your divided ways, yet I have poured out My Spirit upon you and I have anointed you powerfully. And many
have taken the manifestation of My glory and tried to merchandise it and thus promote their own
private kingdoms. But I would not have it so.
For I will bring you into a unity, I will bring you into a fullness
of power that you may manifest My glory through My church and lift up My Son and Him crucified.
There are many now who have felt My hands of power upon them and yet they have felt powerless
in My church. And there are many upon whom I have poured out My anointing and yet their anointing
has not been recognized by My church. For I am preparing you for a time, for a season, when your
man made kingdoms of power and authority shall be turned upside down, and inside out and shall
run into total confusion. For I would destroy those personal kingdoms. The gates of hell shall not
prevail against My church.
And My servants shall emerge and they shall step forth and they
shall manifest the glory of My Son. And they shall assemble those who have been prepared and they
shall organize according to My Holy Spirit. For I have not poured out My Holy Spirit and His gifts
upon My church to build personal kingdoms of glory, says the Father. Nor have I given license to
pervert My purposes.
So I shall shortly, very soon, began a methodical disassembling
of that which has been assembled in the flesh and all will be chaos and confusion. And My servants
shall appear, says the Lord. They shall be true shepherds, true prophets, true apostles and they shall
work together and they shall evangelize the lost and they shall teach them the things which My Son
has taught My church.
They shall build a spiritual structure that will lay hold of the
strongholds of the enemy and they shall thoroughly uproot them and destroy them and establish the
foundations of the living temple of My lively stones. And it shall be a glorious time for those who
are My servants and it will be a time of great distress for those who serve only their own purposes.
For I, the Lord, have created you to be instruments of the manifestation of My glory through My church, My temple of the living stones. And so shall I bring a rod
of correction unto those in this area.
For I shall not be mocked, says the Lord, by a shabby imitation
of the fullness of My glory in My church. For you are My beloved sons and daughters and I will not
have you cheated by the wiles of men in their attempt to create their personal glory. For I shall give
you that which is eternal and lasting, and pure and lovely and undefiled.
And you, South Florida, shall be the finger of God that I have
created you to be.
I will add here a short comment on the phrase “The Finger
of God.”
This phrase refers to:
1—Signs, wonders and miracles: Exodus 8:19:
“Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart
was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.”
2—Laws, authority and provision: Exodus 31:18:
“And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount
Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” Deuteronomy
9:10: “And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and
on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of
the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.”
3—Great power, creativity and order: Psalms 8:3:
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou
hast ordained;”
4—Judgement: Daniel 5:5: “In the same
hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster
of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”
Jesus drove out demons as a manifestation of the kingdom of
God as a reality manifesting (1) signs, wonders and miracles, (2) laws, authority and provision, (3)
great power, creativity and order and (4) judgement. Luke 11:20: “But if I with the finger of
God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.”
We, as His church are admonished by Jesus: “But seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”
(Matthew 6:33.)
