BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!

By Apostle Lynne Hamilton

As a teenager in the 60’s music was my life. The Bee Gees song ‘WORDS’ was rather special to me because it summed up the power and beauty of the effect of what we say and how we say it, especially with the goal of winning someone’s heart. All my life I was a chatterbox, even to the point of being a ‘nervous talker’ i.e. someone who felt the responsibility to keep conversation flowing even if the content was rubbish! I think we’ve all been in a situation at some point where we were stuck with a person who had nothing to say? Very uncomfortable – at least in my experience.

A couple of years ago I asked the Lord to help me to not waste my words, to keep my mouth shut unless I was saying something significant in Him. I didn’t realize what I was asking. I only wanted the prophet in me to be more careful. Since then my natural and preferred ‘state of being’ has been mostly quiet – uncharacteristically quiet. Even to write this article is extremely difficult. Nothing in me wants or needs to talk and I feel I have nothing to say. This is strange because I’m the leader of an international network and people are expecting me to SPEAK! However, my anointing abides and I believe I’m improving in the art of drawing upon it at the right time and circumstance. This helps with precision, which is very important. Jesus said He only said what He heard the Father saying. I had mostly concentrated on only DOING what I saw the Father doing. John 5:19,14:24.

So – I believe He removed my personal (and soulish) need to keep talking. As I look around the marketplace it seems everyone is talking on their cellphones, or texting. It’s hard to spot a person who isn’t. This bothers me, especially when I see young mums not engaging and caring for their small children because they’re too busy talking on the phone! It seems the whole world is one big social media chat room. It’s no secret now that we are being listened to and spied upon and the day will come when many will be incriminated via their careless conversations – especially Christians. The traps are being laid carefully. But lest I rave on too much! God Himself is listening and observing our time and energy spent in unprofitable verbal activity. I’m not suggesting we all dumb down, but ought we to consider this Scripture, Matthew 12:36,37? This should give us cause for reflection I think?

With respect – WOMEN can talk! Most of us would agree with this, but how is the quality of what we are saying? And are our words building the recipients of them? In the words of the Bee Gees song – ‘It’s only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away.’ God gave His Word (written) and sent His Word in the Person of His Son Jesus Christ to take hold of our hearts. I wonder what would happen if we all fasted from social media and closed our mouths for even a week? We could trade talking to the whole world for listening to God, Who may just reveal something of Himself or His plan to us? Our prayer life would improve and we would experience real communion with Him and be enriched through it. I do believe this issue is something on the heart of God right now – it’s not just my opinion. I have forsaken opinion lately – my thoughts are not God’s thoughts, as He said.


Personally I’m grateful for my special season. The one called ‘apart from Me ye can do nothing!’ I am drained, but that’s a good thing because I’ll be refilled and re-fueled. I am spent, having sowed the words of the Lord far and wide, and He will not leave Himself with nothing to say through me when He is ready. Meanwhile I don’t want to do anything carelessly because it may accidentally influence people to distraction.

I’ve revealed myself in this article intentionally at God’s instruction because I feel there are women out there who are in the same place. Take heart – we are being reconstructed for the move which is to come. In our silence – His voice speaks, because we are listening.

True leadership flows out of ‘being’, not just ‘doing’. ‘Being’ develops inward strength at our spiritual ‘core’. I trust these words are from our beautiful Lord – I had nothing to say!

Much love to you all.

Lynne

Whatsoever

I have learned that the best way to overcome a bad habit is to replace it with a good one. If we simply attempt to give up a negative without applying a positive we leave a void into which other negatives will be attracted, to our detriment.

This year at Forerunners our specific mandate requires us to OVERCOME NEGATIVITY, DEVELOP IN HOPE. As per usual, every new year the thing God wants us to change in manifests itself stronger for the first few months, causing issues! I don’t worry about this because I realise that manifestation is necessary as part of the exiting process and it will tantrum before it leaves.

Personally, I am very interested in and drawn towards JOY, and living a joyous life which glorifies God. This is a grand desire but it has enemies – NEGATIVITY being the main culprit. Of course the Bible offers the answers to all of our human dilemmas, and PHILIPPIANS CH. 4 gives us vital keys to combat negativity. Ch. 4:4 says “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, REJOICE.” Easier said than done I reckon! If the rejoicing is to be truly authentic rather than phoney ‘hyperfaith’ theatrics, then we need to use scripture correctly and literally ‘talk our way out’ from under depressive, oppressive, despairing wet blankets which murder our hopes and dreams and cause us to rot away from the inside out.

NEGATIVITY is a killer and thwarts God’s purposes in our lives – it was the very thing which prevented the Israelites from being permitted to enter the Promised Land. In scripture the words NEGATIVITY AND UNBELIEF are used interchangeably when referring to the attitude and behaviour of the Israelites. Very sad.


I want my Promised Land/Destiny! How about you? The battle is won or lost in the arena of the mind, so we must strengthen our mind and load it up with God’s principles so that there is simply no room left for demonic party-poopers. In the words of Billy Joel –‘This is MY life’!

Philippians Ch. 4:8 exhorts us ‘Finally, brethren, WHATSOEVER things are TRUE, whatsoever things are HONEST, whatsoever things are JUST, whatsoever things are PURE, whatsoever things are LOVELY, whatsoever things are of GOOD REPORT; if there be any VIRTUE, and if there be any PRAISE, think on these things.’ Quite a list! True, honest, just, pure, lovely, good report, virtue, praise.

Our mind-sets are the same as our heart – beliefs, and if the mouth speaks what the heart is full of, our belief system will be revealed through the words we choose to speak. Notice the word ‘CHOOSE’! In breaking a habit, CHOICE is involved. As we ‘think on’ the positive virtues listed in this passage, and choose to ONLY speak accordingly, our mental negatives will whither and die of starvation. We are empowered to change.


If our words are our currency, we can spend up BIG investing them in one another. We have responsibility to steward our own lives and build into one another’s lives.  Could it start today? Habits are usually DAILY so a good DAILY exercise would be to think about someone we know and find a way to encourage something from the above list towards them, e.g. ‘If there be any VIRTUE’? Surely everyone has something worth commending? Praise overrules criticism.  The healthy result of this will be verse 7,”And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”. The onflow of this will be JOY, and we will reap what we have sown. So lets’ apply ourselves to the WHATSOEVERS and break the cycles of NEGATIVITY in the world around us. We know we can.

You are all so beautiful,

Apostle Lynne

False Witness

Proverbs 6:16-19
“These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, A FALSE WITNESS WHO SPEAKS LIES, and one who sows discord among brethren.”

If we love God then we will love what He loves and hate what He hates. God is capable of hate, as we can see from the above scripture. He has feelings and I have grown to care about them. I also know that He cares deeply about how I feel.

Most of the New Testament addresses the way in which we, His children, treat one another. He cares deeply about this and Jesus made it very clear that His main desire is that we love one another. The church at large is presently sailing treacherous waters since we are in the very last days and the scriptures pertaining to them. The wheat and the tares are growing fast together.

Years ago I was impacted by the opening chapter of Rick Joyner’s book The Final Quest, which described a vision he had seen of the awful behaviour of the saints towards each other, as they fell under the influence of the end time demonic hordes who drove them to extreme hateful antics. I remember thinking that this must break the Father’s heart. It does.

As an apostle I am burdened both by and for the church, and in recent times have been afflicted by many attacks of FALSE WITNESS which have been weapons formed against me. I am not writing this article in an attempt to defend myself – God will defend me – but rather to appeal to Christians who name the name of Jesus Christ yet are pro-active in broadcasting untruths about other Christians.

We are regularly warned from pulpits all over the world concerning the issue of GOSSIP, and so we should take heed. There is a difference between GOSSIP and FALSE WITNESS though, since it is possible to gossip the truth about people and things yet be violating a confidence and broadcasting things which should remain private and confidential. Just because we know something does not mean we have permission to inform others.

FALSE WITNESS however is lying about someone or something supposedly pertaining to them. It’s about broadcasting the wrong facts on purpose in order to discredit them by attacking their character or name. It can ruin a person’s good reputation and is a gross evil, which is why God hates it. It can be fuelled by jealously, envy, revenge or pure malice, or even by pharisaical religious zeal wanting to ‘fix’ someone, which is pure vindictiveness. It is a spirit of MALICE, which means ‘active ill-will!’ The devil is the ‘father of lies’ and those who insist on practicing FALSE WITNESS are in danger of becoming his children if they don’t arrest their tongues!

One of the ways this spirit has attacked me personally has been via assumption and presumptuous judgmentalism i.e. some people have presumed to know what they ‘think’ I believe, have been opposed to it and judged me by it and then broadcast it to anyone who would listen to their opinion of the supposed ‘error of my ways/ false doctrine’ etc. This results in me being misrepresented and lied about in and to the public arena, causing people to suspect and distrust me as a minister.

Of course I’m not the only minister victimised by this. Rick Joyner and others have whole websites dedicated to destroying them! I am not claiming to be on their level and I don’t have a persecution complex. My main concern is that the saints and other ministers should STOP practicing these behaviours – IF they love God that is?

How the devil loves it when the saints slander one another and fight on FACEBOOK and other electronic media! Especially if they name one another in a way that exposes them. This is disgusting and the PROPHET in me must WARN about it. Why? Because God’s children must walk in a manner worthy of our call. Apostles are burdened and in labour UNTIL Christ (not the enemy) is formed within the saints.

Something to consider – how do you know that what you are being told about someone is the truth? If it’s something negative and unsavoury it should not be passed on even if it is true – we can pray for people if we believe them to be wrong. The scripture warns us not to ‘judge the servant of another’ (Romans 14:4,10)

It’s interesting to me that in Proverbs 6 it says that God hates the PERSON who speaks the lies! Wow! That’s serious! Personally I don’t wish to be hated by God. There are other places in scripture where God is said to hate the PERSON/PEOPLE. I am grateful for His grace and the time He gives to us to repent. Please guys – we live in a nasty world plagued with opinions and arguments, arrogance and criticism, fault – finding, mocking and ridicule, competition and bitterness. This should not be within the Bride of Christ, and one more point please- criticism is NOT ‘truth spoken in love’, as some use as an excuse. Love is KIND – can we please be KIND TO GOD?

Grace to you all,

Apostle Lynne

The Necessary Judas

This blog I want to recommend a book written by our Australian WAA Coordinator, Rev. Glenice Mills. It’s entitled “BETRAYAL – SURELY NOT I?” and it’s a powerful read which is rapidly gaining a reputation for getting people helped and healed so that they can get up and go forward again.

When we think of the word ‘BETRAYAL’ we would probably all identify it strongly with Judas, the man CHOSEN to betray Jesus our Lord and Saviour. The betrayal of Jesus was crucial to His death and resurrection and therefore Judas’ treatment of Jesus was necessary in order for God’s plan for His Son and all of mankind to come to pass. Jesus called him ‘friend.’


Notice that the betrayer was CHOSEN for the job. I have had my own Judas, as I’m sure many of you have too. Perhaps we’ll be betrayed several times in our lifetime. Jesus was fully aware of Judas’ call and fate and He allowed it to take place. I’m sure He could have confronted him before it happened and turned his heart away from the plot but He knew it had to transpire in exactly the way it did for Him to complete His mandate.

So it should be with us, but is it? How many of those with a call to Kingdom Government have sat down again and wallowed in self-pity when ‘friends’, family or even insensitive/ignorant leadership figures in our life have let us down in some way or spoken a false witness against us? Jesus was able (and especially anointed and equipped) to take the kind of heat required to fulfil His role as Saviour. Biblical figures such as Moses, Joseph and Joshua were all ‘saviours’ in their times for God’s people, to deliver them INTO their destiny.

In these end times the Spirit of our ‘Saviour’ is still working through Apostolic men and women to assist in the ‘working out’ of the salvation of the saints. The church needs to be delivered from fear and delivered into boldness and resolve. Judas’ issue was DISAPPOINTMENT in his leader. Nothing was happening quickly enough or in the WAY he hoped it would. The PRESTIGE factor was missing and Jesus’ humility/servant leadership style offended his need for grandeur and wealth notoriety. He could be ‘chosen’ to betray because of his character flaws.

If we are to succeed as five-fold ministers we will from time to time suffer at the hands of betrayers who have ceased to be impressed with us and will sell us out. We must also remember that we are quite capable of offending in this ourselves! Persecution comes in all forms, but we mustn’t let it keep us down. It’s a privilege to be chosen to endure such things and should be a confirmation to us of God’s hand on our lives. Let’s also not forget that Judas did repent.

Glenice Mills’ own experiences with betrayal have forged her into the warrior she is today and we can all draw on that same hope. Just because we have enemies does not mean they get to win!

Their malice just draws out our valour. Amen!

Please get this book – it will strengthen you for the times we are in.

Marching forward, with joy,

Apostle Lynne

All We Can Do

It is my belief that all that God requires is for us to do all that we can! He asked Moses ‘What is that in your hand?’ Moses presented his staff, which represented his call and his authority and was a tool of his care and work amongst the sheep. God then instructed him with it and great miracles occurred! So it will be with us when we use what we have at God’s direction.

There is simply no time to wait until we feel we are and have enough. As we sow, and do a ‘little bit here and there’, it’s amazing what opens up to those who are faithful in the small things.

From the earliest days of my ministry in the late 70’s God has always sent me to the poor, and so it continues to this day. I have only ever done ALL THAT I CAN, so that He then does the rest.

John Wesley once said ‘Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can’. This is our heart. We would appreciate your prayers, and your willingness to help where possible.

God bless you, family and friends.

All for Jesus,

Apostle Lynne Hamilton

The Standard Bearer

Hello Everyone,

As we engage in 2010 I should tell you that the last year or so has weighed really heavily on me regarding issues of leadership - worldwide. God has regularly impressed upon me that He has a ’standard’. This word burns in my spirit because I realise that so few seem to attain to it. So much rests on the integrity of leadership and many thousands of people worldwide are departing from the church because of leadership related issues.

Having said that though, we should remember that every Christian saint is responsible for their own walk, no matter who has failed them. Forgiveness and grace must be employed in order to stay on the path of life. However, God wants His standard in place, and leaders are meant to uphold it as an example and witness to His people.

Please read this little article I wrote recently and see if it resonates within you as truth. Please pray hard for God’s Standard Bearers to take, and hold, their place this year as the saints rally for mobilisation.

May God help us all,

Loving yours,

Lynne

A Standard-Bearer:

1) One who carries a standard or banner, especially of a military unit.
2) An outstanding leader or representative of a movement, organisation, or political party.

God Has a ‘Standard’ – This word means:

1) A distinctive regimental flag which serves as a RALLYING PRINCIPAL.
2) A measure to which others conform.
3) A degree of excellence required for particular purpose.
4) A thing recognised as the model for imitation.

Isaiah 59:19 – When the enemy shall come in, like a flood the SPIRIT OF THE LORD shall lift up a STANDARD against him!

In ancient armies their STANDARDS, usually imprinted with the image of their ruler, helped to keep their units together, since the soldiers could see them above the action. They represented a concrete symbol of that units’ values and achievements. They were also used in religious rituals designed to promote unity.

If a standard-bearer fainted in battle (Is 10:18) it led to disorientation of the troops and disaster. To lose the STANDARD in battle was a terrible disgrace, and defeated leaders went to great lengths to recover their captured STANDARDS!

A STANDARD-BEARER denoted an office held and they were carefully chosen. Leaders in the true Apostolic Movement must be such officers who are able to demonstrate and maintain an upright position, holding their cause and representing God’s character in, to, and for their nations. No compromise.

If ‘righteousness exalteth a nation’ (Proverbs 14:34), then the STANDARD-BEARERS must arise and ‘LIFT UP A STANDARD FOR THE PEOPLE’ to rally to (Isaiah 62:10). The NATIONS are on God’s heart, eternal lives are at stake, and the battle is on! Courage!

Lynne Hamilton

Prioritise, Listen, Be Courageous, & Don’t Compromise!

Dear All,

Where does the time go?! I’m presently caught up in the process of re-prioritising my life and work so that I can put my best effort into what God wants from me now. It’s important to know which season we are in so that we can bear the fruit of it. I believe we all have depths of gifting and talent which God wants to explore and tap into, and there are times when we must let go of things we’ve always done and embrace new challenges. There are only so many plates we can spin at once.

For me personally I know I must embrace the ‘author’ within! This will require huge blocks of time and a different headspace - and therein lies the challenge. I am blessed to have a super leadership team who really do ‘take the strain’ of the ministry with me, and this will be an enormous help in the coming months. I would value your prayers.

God is blessing us enormously in response to our keeping sabbath. His favour is evident upon those of us who have approached the boss at work to get Saturdays off to worship. It has been amazing for those who have found the courage to take this stand, even resulting in promotions!

We have been, and are being mocked and questioned of course! But we expected this so were prepared by the grace of God. I heard Apostle Bill Pryor recently preach that we the church are entering the Holy of Holies according to Tabernacle symbolism, and he said this represents Sabbath or Sabbath rest. He also pointed out that the light is different there, being illuminated by God’s glory itself. Much of the church is wanting the ‘glory’ manifestations now.

I feel it’s appropriate therefore to point out that the church is meant to observe and listen to the prophets. God often used, and still uses prophets ‘for a sign’ as well as a voice.

When an internationally significant group of prophets with an apostle at the helm starts to observe God’s LITERAL sabbath, and refuses to bow to Rome’s ’sun-day’ anymore, WHAT IS GOD SAYING?!?

My heart is for God’s people to reject traditions which have caused us to compromise His word. Time is short now. We should question why we always do what we have always done and change accordingly & quickly.

Loving you,

Lynne