Years ago, we received a prophetic word over our family. We were told to stand up in an auditorium as this prophetic minister began to speak over us not just about my destiny or Christy’s destiny but the to the destiny of our children and to our family as a whole.
He began to say, “The Lord has marked your family as a pioneering family, as a prophetic family that would together reveal the heart of the Father into the earth. And the Lord says that you will build greenhouses for others to come into and find family”
And then he began to speak into the individual identities of my children and what they carried. Justice, wisdom, creativity. I'd never heard anything like this before except for what God spoke to us about our children.
It was like he was reading a journal and reading the things that God has spoken over our children. For the first time someone was speaking and validating the very longing of our hearts to not just be a couple that fulfilled the calling on our lives but saw our family and what we as a whole would accomplish. It was like a deep settling in my spirit and forged a deeper conviction to pursue this way of thinking.
You see, for years we had felt different to other ministries and ministers. We had zero desire to travel alone or separate family and ministry but saw it as the one and same sacred mission.
What comes to mind when you think of a pioneering prophetic family? Maybe you even doubt that your family are pioneers let alone prophetic.
Let me just settle that for you - Your family is prophetic Whether You've tapped into that or your children have even begun to notice it, of your husband has even discovered it. Yet your family is wired to be prophetic. What does that mean? A pioneering prophetic family is a family that simply reveals the heart of the Father through their lifestyle then God broadcasts it into the earth.
The word prophesy In Greek is propheteuo which means to forthtell and set forth/establish which means essentially to be the receivers of heavens frequency and then speak and establish that in the earth. Coupled with the word family - Oikos - which means household, bloodline, and lineage, what do you get?
It means a family that speaks forth by divine inspiration what God is doing and means a family that forthtells what God is about to do and establishes the kingdom of God through strategies, ideas, and wisdom that God gives them.
It's a family that declares a thing that could only be received from the Lord, divine revelation and begins to utter the new themes and language of heaven. It's a family that breaks asunder anything that would counteract or disrupt what God's saying or doing.
And it is a family that encourages comforts and leads others and the body of Christ into a new day. The word propheteuo comes with a command. It comes with an assignment, and that is to create a realm that calls heaven to earth. What does this mean? It means that we as prophetic families have an assignment to bring heaven to earth.
It’s a call to pioneer what we see and hear.
We have an assignment to create in our own homes, realms of God's presence and glories, miracles, signs, wonders, revelation so that it becomes a prototype for something that can be duplicated and replicated around the world as your children go out into it.
Prophetic families essentially are are gardens, the green houses of the spirit where we raise up children and spiritual children that we send as arrows into the world to create realms and worlds out there like what we have cultivated in the garden personally.
So with that said, I want to use this letter today to encourage the pioneering families out there on a few fronts;
Encouragement for the pioneer families
To those who are pioneering healthy after many broken generations..
It’s time to see the fruit of your yes.
It’s time to step completely out of all cycles of dysfunction once and for all.
It’s time to break generational lines of bondage and establish a new bloodline.
It’s time to sever the ties of narcissistic upbringings and all access points the Jezebel spirit has had in your life and family.
It’s time to be a family and set the table for others, to become the true family of God that the world so desperately needs.
It’s time to pick up your sword and be a voice in this time of history that takes the keys of influence away from culture and gives them back to the church.
Man, the enemy hates pioneering families.
Families that are pursuing God as a unit, and march together as one.
Families that have chosen to take the road less travelled and pursue the blueprint of kingdom together instead of separately.
He loves to isolate and assassinate. Cut them off from community and release the spirit of chaos and confusion.
In his arsenal is deep discouragement that comes like a cloud and tries to settle, hope deferred that he plays on the screens of their minds at night, and torment that triggers past failures and fears.
He knows that if he can keep them in survival mode eventually they will forfeit the path.
He knows that if he keeps them from their establishing they will push down the doors of desperation to find it in their own strength.
But today I hear the Lord saying “Have i not promised you that I would take you to the land of milk and honey? Did I lead you this way to taunt you and tease you? No, for I am faithful and you will see me fulfil the promise for you and your family!”
“For just as you have been all in to pursue this legacy, shake off the bonds of your past, and sever old bloodlines, so am I ALL IN to make sure you and your children’s children enter into place I have set aside for them”
This is a season where the enemy is at war against families because they carry something that is revealing counterfeit values and bankrupting his plans around the world.
So we need to leave survival and fighting like victims and go to war.
We must war for our families and our nations with the BLOOD OF THE LAMB!
Today, if you are facing endless warfare against your marriage, your children, and the destiny/legacy of your family - take up your greatest arsenal - the blood of the lamb and watch it war for you.
Take communion as a family and surrender your lives afresh.
Cut off all access points and silence the swirling lies in the atmosphere.
And get back the higher ground again..
Pioneering families, you are not lost or too broken. You are not victims.
YOU OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB & THE WORD OF YOUR TESTIMONY!
