This is Our Season

Topic: This is Our Season

Greetings Sons of God:

Let’s start with this Scripture:

Hosea 6:1-3:  Come, let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.  After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in His sight.  Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

This is a cry through the prophet Hosea for Israel to return to the Lord because of the current state of the nation.  This cry is not just for that particular time period but this is a cry to the sons of God today! Now the Scripture above says that when we return to the Lord that He will heal us and bind us up (unify).  In addition in the third day He will raise us up to live in His sight.  This third day is the day of living in the Spirit.  Understand this we are resurrected from the dead and born again for the purpose to live through and by the Spirit: 

Acts 17:27,28:  That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:  For in Him (Christ) we live, and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 

Now understand to get to this point or state of being where we are living completely and solely by the Spirit when we are born again the Lord begins a process by which He transitions us from living by the soul to living by the spirit and the major process He uses is the Baptism of Fire or sufferings or trials and tribulations.  How do we know this:

1 Peter 4:12,13:  Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you:  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ sufferings; that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 

So many people are broken and spiritually discouraged and because of the times we are living in, may of the sons are crying “Lord where are you?”  We understand that the Lord is ever with us and through the gift of prophecy and proper apostolic doctrine we understand the season we are in and see what the Father is doing through the removal of restraint.  However I caution you not to get concerned so much with what the world is doing because within that prophecy was this Scripture:

Isaiah 26:20:  Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, unto the indignation be overpast. 

So within our households are we to be learning and allowing the Father to prepare us for the time that He is ready to present the Sons of God to the creation.  Remember in Romans 8 it speaks of the whole creation groans and travails for the manifestation of the sons of God.   This is our season now!  

This is the day that the Lord is healing, refining and purging us from the effects of the Fall and being led by our soul to being led by the Spirit in every moment.  God is eliminating the soulish nature within the sons that prevent them from manifesting His glory.  Our reason for living is to follow Christ’s path to sonship and manifest His glory to a dying age.  This will require that our hearts are fully driven to be completely obedient to Him.

God is going to accomplish this work within us on this side of the veil of death.  It is important to point this out for a very crucial reason:

Hebrews 11:39-Hebrews 12:1: And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us. That they without us should not be made perfect.  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

There are those who have gone on before us in the faith.  But when you read the 40^th verse of Hebrews 11 it says they without us should not be made perfect.  There is so much in just that statement but we will revisit it later. The church, the House of God is a unified family even though there are those who are in heaven and those sons on the earth but here it says that the sons in Heaven, the Cloud of Witnesses as they are called should not be made perfect without us.  They are yearning and cheering us on to finish the race so that they are made perfect also.  That is a thought huh?  Just because you go to Heaven does not mean that there is not still a maturing process.  They are calling on us to lay aside every weight and sin that is a stumbling block in the race and path to sonship.  

The entire creation is waiting, the Cloud of Witnesses are cheering us on to finish the race. Will you answer the call of God on your life.

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

"The Dream" Teaching Series

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Examining "I Have A Dream" Part 2

“The Dream” Series

Today’s Focus: Examining  “I Have a Dream” Part 2

Greetings Sons of God:

When we look at the speech there is a particular section that I want to focus on because much of the speech did speak to the civil rights struggle and overcoming but there was a particular part of the speech that you do not hear many speak of but it is probably the most important part of the speech in understanding the dream.  Here is the section of the speech:

“I have a dream that ONE DAY every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.  This is our hope and this is THE FAITH that I go back to the south with.  With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.  With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.  With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.” 

Now when we examine this portion of the speech we see some very crucial words:

1.   One Day

2.   Glory of the Lord

3.   Faith

4.   Hope

5.   Brotherhood

6.   Together (Unity)

This portion of the speech was not speaking of the present day of the speech but of a time to come.  But moreover everything about this portion of the speech is spiritual not carnal.  So to understand this requires a spiritual interpretation because to carnally interpret it will put the meaning in a place where many will believe that this will never happen.  Just look at the current state of the nation. Racism is still present and to believe that everyone will be equal in the United States under the current system is a farce.   Dr. King in this portion of the speech was quoting a Scripture in Isaiah.  Isaiah 40:4,5 to be exact and it speaks of the coming of the Lord.  But when you go to the previous scriptures, verse 1-3 it speaks of the one crying in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord and make it straight.  Now we know that to make the Lord’s way straight is to walk in submission and obedience because the crooked way is of the enemy.   Dr. King says this is the hope and the faith that he will go back to the south with but also the hope and faith that will unify and set free the captives.  Hmm this sounds familiar. 

I believe we are living in the day to see “The Dream” become a reality and this is why:

Isaiah 2:2: And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it.

In this day, the Lord is raising a nation that makes “The Dream” a reality and that nation is not the United States, but the Holy Nation, the Spiritual Israel, the House of God.  Now how can we prove it. 

1.      Where else can there be people completely unified beyond the color of their skin? (Galatians 3:26-29)

2.      Where else can people be truly free? (2 Corinthians 3:17)

3.      Unity through Brotherhood (Ephesians 3:14,15; Ephesians 4:1-6)

It is within the Holy Nation, the House of God that the Scripture in Isaiah 2 says “all nations shall flow to it” and it continue to say how when they come the House of God they will learn His ways and the law shall come from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  This is The Dream!  The House of God being made manifest in this day.  Those who are carnal will continue to fight to keep the dream alive but for those who are spiritual they are watching the dream become reality. 

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Examining "I Have A Dream" Part 1

“The Dream” Series

Today’s Focus: Examining “I Have A Dream” Part 1

Greetings Sons of God:

In August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. in front of the Lincoln Memorial one of the greatest speeches given in American history was given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  So many in particular, African-Americans speak of this great speech and demonstration in Washington on that faithful day.  When there are civil injustices done in America especially towards African Americans many speak of “The Dream Speech” and many will say “We must keep Dr. King’s dream alive”.  Even as recent as 2013 in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin Case here in Tallahassee, Florida there are a group of people sitting-in in front of the Governor’s Office in the attempt to get a certain law changed due to the verdict of the trial. 

Now in the previous messages we have laid out the importance of dreams and how God speaks to us through them.  We also study that the interpretation of the dreams is spiritually revealed and will happen because God cannot lie and the manifestation of the dream in reality is for an appointed time of the Father.  Now with all of that said here is the question:

How do you keep the dream alive?

So many people have gone about “keeping the dream alive” wrong.  People have made keeping the dream alive all about equality for African-Americans only and even when you go back in look at the transcript of the speech, he was speaking of injustices against all.  Now before we break the speech down I want to go forward to his last speech right before King’s assassination “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” (April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) let me give you this portion of the speech:

“Well, I don’t know what will happen now; we’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter to with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop.  And I don’t mind. Like, anybody, I would like to live a long life-longevity has its place.  But I’m not concerned about that now.  I just want to do God’s Will and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain and I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the Promised Land.  I may not get there with you But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people, will get to the Promised Land. I am so happy tonight; I’m not worried about anything; I’m not fearing any man.  Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” 

Now King spoke this message in a church.  Now when you read this, many have tried to apply this to the fact that African-Americans will make it to the promised land but there is a problem with that viewpoint because if the Spirit is speaking through him to the church then he is speaking about the House of God.  Now a major point is the fact that King says that “The Lord allowed me to go up to the mountain”.  Now we have a point of reference for this: Moses and when Moses went up to the mountain, he went there to fellowship with the Lord and receive His Words for the nation.  In addition, He said he looked over and seen the Promised Land and said He has seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.  Nothing about that is carnal or natural, this was spiritual.  I strongly believe that he knew he was not going to see that day but he had been given a hope, a certainty that the people, the House of God, will get there.     

The messages and dreams that King was given by the Lord were all spiritual and if they are spiritual then their interpretation must be revealed by the Spirit.  Yes there were portions of his speeches that spoke about the current conditions of the time but the major parts of the speech that people quote and use for their agendas are the portions that are spiritual and because they have not received it spiritually, they carnally try to apply it to their agenda. 

When Dr. King speaks of having a dream then we need to examine the dream and allow the Spirit to reveal the dream and if this is the case then to say “we must keep the dream alive” will be put in its proper perspective knowing that the dream will tarry and will manifest.  But we know for a certain that it will happen the question is:

Are you going to be a willing participant in seeing it come to reality because it is coming because the Word of the Lord will accomplish all that it is set out to do. 

In the next message we look at the speech and see what the dream is and why it is relevant for today.

 

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Understanding the Manifestation of Dreams and Visions

“The Dream” Series

Today’s Focus: Understanding the Manifestation of Dreams and Visions

Greetings Sons of God:

To understand how dreams are manifested we need to look at this Scripture:

Habakkuk 2:2-4:  And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall not speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.  Behold, his soul which is lifted up in not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. 

If the Lord gives the vision or dream then we have a guarantee that it will come to pass because God does not lie and the Scriptures say the the Word of the Lord will go forth out of His mouth and will not come back void without accomplishing all it has been set out to do.  So when God speaks through a dream you can rest assure that it will come to reality.  Now there are dreams that warn us and if we do not make the necessary changes the Lord is warning us about then the consequences will come to pass and you cannot say that the Lord did not warn you.  

Two of the most vivid testimonies I can use is the visions and dreams given to Daniel pertaining to the end times and the dreams and visions given to Joseph as it pertains to the protection and safety of baby Jesus.  Now in this day God is still speaking through dreams and visions because His Word through the prophet Joel tells us this.

The problem we run into as it pertains to dreams and visions manifesting is this small passage within the Scripture that says “the vision is yet for an appointed time”.  Just because we get the vision today does not mean the manifestation will be today.   The timing of the vision becoming reality is up to the One giving the vision because He knows the end from the beginning.

In understanding this let us take a look at the I Have Dream Speech in the next message.

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.