Derek Prince: Exercising Spiritual Gifts

Merry Christmas - Lisa Patterson

Baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

When we give a fragile gift, we make sure it is marked on the box that contains it. The word fragile is written with big letters because we don't want anyone to damage what is inside. God's gift to us came in the most fragile package: a baby. Sometimes we imagine Christmas day as a beautiful scene on a postcard, but any Mother can tell you it wasn't so. Mary was tired, and maybe insecure. And the baby was born in the most unsanitary conditions. She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the "inn." Luke 27.

A baby needs constant care. Babies cry, eat, sleep, and depends on caregivers. They cannot make decisions. In Mary's day, infant mortality was high, and mothers often died in childbirth. Why did God choose such a fragile way to send His son to earth? Because Jesus had to be like us in order to save us. God's greatest gift came in the fragile body of a baby, but God took the risk because He loves us. Let us be thankful today for such a gift! We need Him very hour.

Luke 2:1-7 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift! Do not take Him lightly.

Take time from your busy Holiday schedule and thank God for all the wonderful things he has bestowed on us and given us eternal life for accepting His only son

to die on the Cross for us at Calvalry, when He knew no sin at all. He loved us so much that he gave His only son to die for us, so we may be saved for eternity. He is so interested in us that He will go out of His way for us if we only believe on Him and have faith the way He wants. That is His faith and only that kind is the pleasing kind to Him. He wants us to come to Him just the way we are.

Lord said, "Let me do the work I started. It is mine and mine alone. I will take care of it all. It 's all so taken care of. I'm rearranging things to make it better and in more order. The order I want is the accurate arrangement of things and

events I have made for the Church. It is coming very soon. A new and beautiful Church just for my people. Be by my side for me to do this work I have planned for years and years. This is all my ways. No one can do what I do in the spirit for you. More and more things to come and quickly to come."

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This is Lisa Patterson with the Good

News that Jesus Loves you and wants you to come to Him today!

Happy Thanksgiving - Lisa Patterson

Today we give thanks to the Good Lord for all He has bestowed upon us. He
has been so good to us this past year, even though we have had our trials and tribulations. The Bible said we would, so as not to be afraid of anything , but in all things give thanks. Those who do not reverence the Lord do not believe He is who He says He is,
the great restorer and great physician and healer for us. Although there's so much confusion going on in the world, we are not to worry about our lives. He said there would be much tribulation in this earth, but not to look
but Him. For He is our shield and comforter. He alone takes care of the birds in the air, the cattle, the animals and everything He made. He supplied food for them here on this earth. So why would He not take care of you? They do not have a soul, but He takes care of them. We do, and yet worry about how He is going to take care of our business while here on earth. Everything that has breath should bow before His Holy presense and sing unto Him a new song. He
will bless you and take good care of you if you will just take time to see about His goodness and mercy that endureth forever! Amen.

Yes, we may be praying for family members to be saved, etc. but He already knows that and has answered your prayers in His own way. We cannot tell how
He will do what he said, but He will do what you ask according to his devine will
and purpose for your life.He said this yr would be a new yr for those who have kept his promise and kept his word. The abiding faith within has kept you warm and cozy from the fiery darts of the enemy. He wanted to snatch you up but my hand was always there to catch you and make it alright. An aroma from Heaven abides in my people who have stayed by my side and loved me. There will be no marks on you but mine, and only then will you be able to reach out and hand the other person his healing and freshness. For you have to stay by me to do that and pray to me and ask in my name and you shall receive in my will.
So, take the bread and eat and drink of the cup to adoration unto the Lord this
very day to be grateful for all we have and the things He will do.

Let Him love you like He wants to. He made you with His own hands. The man was made out of the ground and the woman was made from his side to be with
him for partnership and protection. He made it that way for a reason so we could all be as one unto Him. He wants your attention this very hour. So, give it
to Him and let Him take away all the negative thoughts and everything that has
hurt you in the past. Let it all go and give it to Him, so He can make it right!
Be thankful for his name and the goodness He has bestowed upon man. He gave
man a will of his own to choose, but He paid a high price for that. You could have been puppets on a string, but He did not make you that way. He gave you a mind of your own and then asked you to come and join Him at his table with
Thanksgiving and pleasure for all He has done. We cannot do anything on our own. We were made for a purpose and can take our choice, but we need to choose Him! He loves you today and always will. Stay in the scriptures.
Have a Great thanksgiving time with your family and with Jesus.

This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that God Loves you and wants You to come to Him today!

Loving Others - Lisa Patterson

Our lives are for somebody else and not our own. I will love someone else and be what God chose me to be,
not just myself. Your life ended at the Cross and the new life is for someone else.

It is an assignment you have here on earth until the Lord calls you home. It is you spending time with the Lord and
about loving someone else for Christ. You have to have His love and power to love them. Get yourself before the
Lord and show Him you are wanting
His attention and love and see what He will do for you and your loved ones. Get prostrate before the Lord and humble yourself before Him to see how much He loves us and to change yourself to Him. He that over cometh will make it and those who don't will have judgement. You can love Jesus or not and fall. It is Christ in you and Christ that you are living. He wants us content with Him.

You can be weak and He is strong. Spend time with Him for communion. Have a sound mind. The enemy is not going to do this to me. You cannot live apart from the one who created you. There are too many gadgets that take us away from our creator and what He made us to be and intended for us!

Zeph. 1-6 ,3 classes of people who have not pleased the Lord. Those who have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him. Those get problems, get sick early and even die early.VS. 6 Those who have turned their backs from following the Lord have not sought Him, nor inquired of Him.

Gal. 2:20 We no longer live. It is Christ who lives in me and bore your burdens.
We have to live by faith alone! he sends problems for us to get to Him.!
Paul told Timothy to give himself totally to the Lord. Just take Him! And don't
try to do it yourself. God is not complicated with us and doesn't make it "over
your head." He knows everything and is easy and simple. Rest and relax and be
in peace. Give Him all of it. Do not be afraid. He is here if you are in Him.
John 17:1-15,24,25.

No longer I but Christ in me. Gal. 2:20. rest in the Holy Spirit. Must be patient
He is a good Father.We need His hand. He never leaves nor forsakes us. No
man or woman can teach you these things. Only Holy Spirit. We are on an individual and spiritual journey with Him. You cannot tell the Holy spirit what
to do or to hurry up or slow Him down. We are here to reveal to us.
Prov. 8 says God loves those who love Him. Deeper things come from showing
the Lord you love Him(at the table). He will give you practical things all day.
But deeper is getting in Him. We do not have to live. It is Him who lives in us.
You don't have to fix it or work it out. We can do all things but all things are not
necessary. Do not have to do it all. We do not have to live, He lives in us.

So, come to Him today and let Him love you like He always has from the
beginning of time! You were not made by accident. You are here for a reason.
He will not tell you everything because it's not yours to know. Just what He wants you to know. Take Him and let Him love you today. The Lord would say, "Come to the table and eat with me. I have everything you need here. There are all kinds of foods and gifts and talents are in here for you to receive. So be blessed and take that which I have prepared for you to have this hour. Your place is prepared and available for you to come eat at my table. Your gifts and talents will emerge when you come sit with me this hour. For why are you worried my children? What do you have to be concerned with? I am blowing a sweet flavored breeze your way with an aroma of flowers that you can smell within you and others sense the aroma around you. There's no need to be afraid or worried that these things will not work out. My time is not of the earth and you must rest in me to see the full fillment of what I am doing for you. "

This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that Jesus Loves you and wants you
to come to Him today. Tomorrow may be too late!

The Simplicity Of Christ - Lisa Patterson

The Lord loves us, but He gives to those who reach out to Him. You have to get  out of the way so He can reach us. We get caught up in revelation that isn't simple any more. It is too much of this and that. Christ was simple. he made His word to give to everybody so it would let everybody see what He is doing in us and through us. Jesus is your life if you have asked Him in. That is it. You are not your own any more. He paid the price so we wouldn't have to. He did it all for us. Jesus is your life and it is that simple!

Come to His table to get what you need. He is so simple and everyone is complicating Him. The remnant is tapped into the underground place with Him. There is coming an awakening. Being in the flesh is inability to please God. He is only pleased by our faith in Him. Nothing else will do.

Jer. 31:12 They(believers) shall come and sing in the height of Zion streaming to
the goodness of the Lord. Soul shall be like well watered gardens and they shall sorrow no more(if your soul is like a saturated garden). Like being drunk in the spirit. Isaiah 58:11 The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy  your soul in
drought. And strengthen your bones. You shall be like a watered garden and a spring of water whose water never fails(those who diligently seek him).

You cannot prove the scripture with your mind. It is all spiritual and you have to
get into Him to understand what He is talking about. He will make and keep you sane! Isaiah 55:10 He uses natural to show spiritual. Water in our lives keeps us healthy and so we don't dry up and fills us with Him. It causes us to be fruit unto men. You can even smell God's fruit on a person who has been with the Lord.
You can taste and smell the fruit. Like an example is we take a chair to sit in but
we are not the chair. He holds us and keeps us up. He that endures to the end
will be saved. that means he who is doing the Lord's work and showing love for His people and fruit, shall be saved! Stay with Him. You cannot fly or fight if you are dry. Must take Him everyday.

He took us to the pit with Him and now we are up in the air with the almighty!
Don't have to be in the pit because He went there with us so we would not have to be there alone! you cannot handle this life by yourself. It is not by works but
by my spirit that you do these things. He has taken us up to the High places.
There's a provision and blessing to come to. We are totally dependent on Him
He is our very being. Our living water. We depend on Him for everything! He loves us so much that our living breathing parts are made up of His being if we are in Him! We should never forget His divine benefits he has laid out for us. This is our life, to live for Him everyday and always. We have no other choice.

Let Him love you like He intended to and take care of all your problems. The matters of this life are nothing in comparison to what's ahead. Live for the Lord and hear His voice, for He longs to reach out to you every day and always! "There is a new season ahead and a new awakening that your eyes have not seen and ears have not heard. Look ahead at the things I am doing and preparing for you. I love you with an everlasting love that is so deep, the oceans cannot fill it. You come on in and see how high my mountains are and that's the scope of the love for you to get into that I have in store for you this hour. Be still so you won't miss the hour and blessings that have been waiting for you. I am creating a New Structure and it has healing all around it for you."

This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that Jesus Loves You and wants you to come to Him today!

The Assignment Part 2 - Lisa Patterson

11. When you are where you are assigned, there will be no rivals. You are not necessary everywhere. You are not needed everywhere you go. There is only one you and never has been another or will be another you. That is why no one understands you. God doesn't make copies, He is not a zerox copier. You are an original manufactured in the thrown room of Heaven way before your Mother or Dad knew you even existed. You still existed in the Father's eyes. Jesus didn't treat everybody the same, nor does he talk to everyone the same, so that tells that you are special to Him. Your assignment may require seasons of intensified prayer and fasting. It is a force in the world to change things in the spirit world.
You should fast during times of unusual attack and isolation. Fasting produces humility.It should be private and silent before God. It moves God to destroy the enemy. Fasting also births a season of restoration after loss. Do not attempt to fast until you have forgiven those who have wronged you. And have a place for prayer every day and a time that you can set aside.

12.You may have seasons of pain. Must admit your pain. But it does pass. Become a learner and the seasons may not be as many. Determine to know where it is coming from so as to get to the root and dissolve it and know it before it comes around again. Confront the reasons for your pain. Make sure you are trusting the right people. Remember, broken people are masters at mending others. Always sow your greatest seeds during times of pain.

13. Your assignment and anointing will attract attack. It always will. There will always be an enemy to your God given assignment. Remember that when your assignment is awakened, your adversary is awakened against you. It happened to Nehemiah in Ch. 2:10.19.
Stay awake and alert and aware, productive and focused. Endurance is a must. Stay around those who are in the presence of the Lord. Always stay focused on your assignment. It needs to be an obsession. You cannot do anything you want. there is an invisible instruction in you that tells what you were made to do on earth. Persue the presence of God and his word all the time. You need to be around another intercessor also to pray for your family and assignment.
Satan only attacks at the birth of something significant in your life. He uses those closest to you as gates to your heart.use the word of God for defence.
Your faith is working for you every minute of your life. You must believe that.

14. Your assignment will always have an enemy.
Your assignment will stop something wrong from growing bigger. It will ultimately destroy something God hates very much.And it will strengthen something satan wants weakened. Exodus 17:12.
You must learn satan is the only true enemy. It is not people, he just has to use them. And you must decide to fight back. Eph. 6:10 I is your personal responsibility to stand up against the methods of satan against you. And you must decide to put on the whole armour of God everyday. The persistent win always. Stay on guard at all times. Your adversary, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Your genius will emerge when you are in the correct place God has assigned for your life.

Be on guard at all times. Thanking God all the time good times and bad. have a good attitude and be the one the enemy hates to see wake up in the morning. Make him scared of you everyday instead of you being afraid of him. The Lord would say, "Walk with me and hold my hand and see the miracles that are awaiting you this day. I have waited on you to be with me and the gates of hell will not prevail against you. I am so pleased you would want to come and be with me this hour. The days are dark and the nights are full, and the light is in me and only me. You will not find happiness anywhere you go if I am not in you. So be of good cheer as I have come to take you with me to walk through the green pastures to smell the roses and gentle breeze. Be by my side and never let me go. I will carry you through the storms of life and not let the enemy have any part of it. Just take my hand and let go of all of it that has kept you down and I will remake it all new for you.Do not worry about tomorrow. There's a turning and shaking around to clear out the debris from your lives and in turn the Lord is bringing a new special place to be in with Him. Don't look back at anything but forward to the high calling in Him who made you to be with Him for eternity He will take care of the snare of the enemy as we pray and make a way for the new to begin in our lives. So, don't despair where you are and let the light shine.There is a new road to travel that is smoother and narrower than the old road. It had rocks and pebbles and hurt a lot to walk on it. This new path is straighter and smoother than before. People are on the path with their hands held out for you to help. If their backs are turned away, then leave them alone to God. There are many who will need you and you will see them holding out to you so give to them what I have said to do this day."

This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that Jesus Loves You and wants you to come to Him today!

The Assignment Part 1 - Lisa Patterson

The Assignment is spelled out in Jeremiah 1. God formed thee in the belly and knew you before you were ever formed. He already had your assignment picked out before you were formed. It is invisible and no two humans God made have the exact same assignment. You were created on earth to solve a problem while here on  God chose you to solve a specific assignment. It is always to a person or a people.

1. Everything created contains an instruction, to solve a problem. Instructions are invisible but  never the less cannot be doubted. It is defined what you are in your DNA and cannot produce what is not there. There is a desire to increase and produce and multiply. Something within you wants to solve a problem for somebody, somewhere and sometime.That is your assignment.

2.You assignment will force your greatest gifts and talents to emerge. It is your own responsibility to discover your gifts and talents. It is not others responsibility to discover yours, it is up to you. It will require your personal  reaching, pursuing and moving toward it. Rom.14:12 Everyone will give an account of himself to God. The Word of God is the blueprint of your assignment, and must become your daily focus. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2Tim. 1:7

3. Never stay where you have not been assigned. You are not assigned everywhere. Go where you are celebrated and not tolerated. When people look at you in a stare and not seem happy, you should take heed and warning. It is not your responsibility to please everybody. You are not supposed to. There is a difference when you pour out your life at a specific place God has assigned you to be. It will be happy and an aroma that's not everywhere. There will be times when your own assignment to your labor is inaccurate. It will seem in vane at times. But through tenacity and determination, the winds of God will blow and His blessings will come.

4. Your assignment will always be a problem the Holy Spirit qualified you to solve.God formed it in you or you would not be capable  of the burning desire He placed in you. He is a creator and knows what He is doing. Go after your dream and calling that He placed in you. Isaiah 43:1 I have called thee by thy name, Thou art Mine. You may feel incapable of completing your assignment. You may feel weak and incapable. You may feel unworthy. You may feel foolish and weak. You may feel despised and undesired by someone. You also may feel powerless and without influence. Ps.5:12. You also may feel carnal and ignorant, or that your past wasn't good enough, defenceless and that you have too many enemies.
You may feel overwhelmed and that it takes too long for God to assist you and help you become what you are supposed to be.

5. Your assignment is to be accepted and not altered. You cannot afford the tragedies of an ignored instruction. God will not alter what He has made you and to try and get away from the assignment He created you to be is going to make you have to return to where you are supposed to be. When you get the wrong people out of your life, the wrong things stop happening. What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you. What you fail to master will eventually master you. What you fail to conquer will eventually conquer you. Do not alter your assignment or you will face tragedy in your life.

6.It will make you feel inadequate. It will require the anointing of the Holy Spirit. the anointing is the power of God. Your assignment is bigger than you are because it is. Only God can give it to you to solve and nobody else has yours.
It will require more finances than you presently possess. The assignment will require the weakest part of you to be revealed. Jeremiah felt inferior to his assignment because it is bigger than you are. It will require boldness, and death to your carnal nature daily. It will also require more people than you already know. And it will require the continuous mentorship of the Holy Spirit.

7. Your assignment may be to someone who at first does not appreciate you. It will not happen in the beginning always. You may not be received at first, but you will if you are called to them. Jesus was rejected but it did not prevent Him from reaching out. Moses was misunderstood. His own people did not appreciate the calling he had on his life in the beginning. Paul beleived people could change. He had been changed himself. Titus was there to change the ungrateful into grateful people. He was there to motivate.

8. You assignment will always be to someone with a problem. Don't run from it because you are qualified to solve a problem for somebody while on earth.
A mechanic solves car problems. A dentist solves teeth problems, a banker solves financial problems,a minister solves spiritual problems, a doctor solves health problems, Mothers solve emotional problems. So, find the one you are qualified to solve. You cannot solve everybody's problem. Nobody is Jesus Jr.
Yours will determine and heighten what you hear. Others around you won't see what you do. The problem you notice is a clue to your anointing and calling in life. But you are not called to everyone because you cannot solve their problems.
You will have great compassion for the person with the problem. Gen 41;15-36.
If it is the will of God for you to solve a problem for someone, you will have the ability to do so.So understand you are not assigned everywhere, to everybody and you cannot solve every kind of problem! When God is involved, your assignment will always be to someone with a problem you are qualified to solve.

9. Your assignment will always be to someone who is hurting. Jesus came to heal and restore.He commanded the deciples to heal and restore. And He expects us to heal and restore. So, find out what God has called you to do and get prepared to do it. Don't waste time when He can let you know. It can be through a dream, Him telling you as a child, or at School, or through your Parents. or a Teacher may let you know through the Holy Spirit. But know a weight will fall off your shoulders when you find out what you are ordained to do in this life.

10. The anointing for your assignment may create great conviction and discomfort for others.The anointing that attracts some will always alienate others.The anointing on you will always force others to make decisions. The anointing on you may intimidate those in leadership or power. It can create problems when others are intimidated by it. Acts 24:27.
The anointing is the reward from the Holy Spirit for commitment to Him. And the anointing is the knowledge of God that exposes ignorance and error around you. Hebrews 4:12.

So, take this teaching and study what the Lord wants to give you today so you will not be confused as to where or whom you have been assigned.The Lord said," I have been building a foundation with your lives. It looks like the enemy is after you but it is my hand moving things around.Many of you have been going through a lot and if you have not been with me through the rough spots(rocks), then the buildings would crumble. They have to stand on sold ground. And that's why you have had to do  it with me to get you to a place where it's all solid and not built on sand. Everything today is instant and those who have had to live off the real thing for the right consistency, will see the solid foundation stand up under the pressure and the building will be on solid rocks."
This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that Jesus Loves You and wants you to come to Him today!