THE "EQUALIZER"

[prophetess m. brignac]

AS WE STAND UPON OUR WATCH, AND OBSERVE THE "BUSY-NESS" AND "GOINGS ON" WITHIN THE KINGDOM, WE CAN'T HELP BUT RECOGNIZE THE PRESENCE OF UNDESIRABLE PRESENCES AND MANIFESTATIONS, THAT ARE BLINDING US TO THE FACT, THAT WE ARE NOT REALLY STRIVING TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND RIDE THE WAVE OF LATTER DAY HARVESTING, REVIVAL, AND EVANGELISM THAT HAS BEEN SET BEFORE US. WE ARE DISTRACTED BEYOND MEASURE, AND MOST OF OUR "SERVICE" IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, HAS NO IMPACT ON THE GREAT COMMISSION, AND IT DOES ASOLUTELY NOTHING TO 'COMPLE THEM THAT ARE LOST TO COME!" THE ENEMY HAS SET UPON US VERY STRATEGICALLY, AND ATTACKED OUR SPIRTUAL 'ACHILLES HEEL" TO BRING ABOUT DIVISION, STRIFE, ENVYINGS, SLANDER, COMPETITVE JEALOUSY, MALICE, AND UTTER CONFUSION, TO DISARM US OF OUR KINGDOM WEAPONS OF WARFARE, SO THAT HE CAN SUCCESSFULLY AMBUSH US AND SABOTAGE THE GREAT REVIVAL, AND RECONCILIATION OF THE MULTITUDES, YET IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION. WE "SQUABBLE' AND BICKER, WHEN WE SHOULD BE WEEPING BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR", AND PETITIONING THE LORD GOR AN ACCELERATED MOMENTUM, AND A RHEMA WORD TO BE IN OUR MOUTHS, SO THAT WE MAY BE FOUND "ARMED" WITH THE RIGHTLY DIVIDED WORD, AND THE POWER OF GOD, TO THE SAVING OF MEN'S SOULS. THE STRONG-HOLDS OF "LEVIATHAN", EXTREME PRIDE, ARROGANCE, SELF-CENTEREDNESS, AND PERVERTED MOTIVES HAS ENTHRONED ITSELF IN SOME OF OUR HEARTS, AND FOUND A COMFORTABLE SPOT IN OUR LOCAL ASSEMBLIES, RENDERING US "NULL AND VOID", AND POWERLESS TO REALLY REACH AND RECONCILE THE LOST. WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT BEING "SLEIGHTED", HAVING OUR "ANOINTING"/NAME TAG, OVERLOOKED OR DISPRESPECTED, AND ENGAGED IN "POWER STRUGGLES" ,BECAUSE WE NEED IT TO BE KNOWN, THE 'TITLE WE SO HIGHLY ESTEEM, WHEN ALL WE NEED TO DO IS SIMPLY "DO THE WORKS", OF THE APOSTLE, PROPHET, PASTOR, EVANGELIST, BISHOP, TEACHER, PSALMIST, OR WHATEVER, AND THE DIVINE ENDORSEMENT OF GOD, WHICH IS UNDENIABLE, AND IRREVOKABLE (EXCEPT BY HIM), WILL "ANNOUCE" AND PROVE YOU. IT IS OUR NATURE TO NEED TO BE "HIGHER", 'WISER", "DEEPER,"MORE ANOINTED", MORE GIFTED", "TALLER", "BETTER LIKED", "MORE SOUGHT AFTER', IN "GREATER DEMAND", AND "SMARTER", SO WE DO WHAT WE CAN IN OUR FLESH, TO ENHANCE WHAT GOD HAS EUIPPED US WITH, TO SHINE BRIGHTER, BE MORE VISIBLE, AND STAND TALLER. WE GET CERTIFIED, LICENSED, ORDAINED, RECERTIFIED, ELECTED, SELECTED, AND "PICKED, FORGETTING THAT THE "EUALIZER " IS BEING "CALLED" AND "CHOSEN', WHILE YOU ARE "NOBODY" SPECIAL, DOING NOTHING SPECIAL, BUT SEEKING AND SERVING "AS UNTO THE LORD! THE 'EQUALIZER' IS THE GRACE OF GOD THAT REMINDS US THAT WE ARE ALL, FORMER "WRETCHES" IN NEED OF A SAVIOUR! THE "EQUALIZER" IS THE "BLOOD OF THE LAMB" THAT REMINDS US THAT EVERY ONE OF US, WAS RESCUED FROM A "HORRIBLE PIT", AND PURGED WITH HYSSOP! THE "EQUALIZER" IS HIS TENDER MERCY, WHICH REMINDS US THAT THERE IS NO (GOOD THING) THAT DWELLETH IN NOT A ONE OF US, (BUT THANKS BE UNTO GOD THAT THROUGH SALVATION, THERE'S A "GOD" THING IN US!) THE "EQUALIZER" IS THE "ANOINTING AND EXOUSIA POWER OF GOD, WITHOUT WHICH WE COULDN'T HEAL A MOSQUITOE'S HEADACHE! THE "EQUALIZER" IS THE "CROSS" WHERE WE WERE REDEFINED, TRANSFORMED, TRANSLATED, AND MADE 'CANDIDATES" TO JOURNEY DOWN TO THE "POTTER'S HOUSE" SO THAT THE POTTER COULD DO A WORK IN US. THE EQUALIZER IS 'MORE' GRACE, DAY BY DAY, THAT INFORMS US THAT " WE HAVE THIS 'TREASURE' IN EARTHEN VESSELS, BUT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER, IS OF GOD, AND NOT OF OURSELVES! WHEN WE TAKE A "SELAH" MOMENT TO MEDITATE ON ALL THAT CHRIST HAS MADE POSSIBLE FOR US, AS WE REFLECT ON OURSELVES WHILE WE WERE ON THE 'OTHER' SIDE OF SALVATION, AND RECOGNIZE THAT NONE OF THE BLESSIINGS HE HAS BESTOWED UPON US DO WE DESERVE, IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE THAT WE MAY STOP TAKING OURSELVES SO SERIOUSLY, WE MAY ACTUALLY BESEECH THE LORD TO CLOTHE US IN HUMILITY, AND BEAUTIFY US WITH MEEKNESS ,AND FIND OURSELVES WILLING AND ABLE TO ESTEEM OUR BROTHER/SISTER ABOVE OURSELVES, TO CELEBRATE THEM OUT OF A PURE HEART, AND TO HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR THE FACT THAT WHILE ON OTHERS HE WAS CALLING, THAT HE DIDN'T PASS THEM BY, AND NEITHER DID HE FORGET ABOUT US! OUR GREATEST EQUALIZERS ARE THE TROUBLES, MISHAPS, AND TRIBULATIONS THAT WE ENDURE. IT IS THE MUTUAL ENEMY THAT WE SHARE, SATAN, WHO HAS THE SAME PLANS, INTENTS, AND PURPOSES FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, THAT HE DOES FOR EVERY OTHER SERVANT OF GOD, REGARDLESS OF RANK , "STATION" OR PROFILE. IN MY STINT IN THE MILITARY AS AN ARMY OFFICER, I QUICKLY LEARNED THAT WHEN A "UNIT" IS DEPLOYED TO A BATTLE FIELD, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE "NCO'S" AND "OFFICERS", WHO LIVE IN DIFFERENT BARRACKS, SOCIALIZED IN DIFFERENT "CLUBS", AND SOMETIMES, CARRIED DIFFERENT WEAPONS, BASED ON RANK, IN WAR, THERE WERE VERY REAL "EQUALIZERS", AND THEY WERE CALLED "AMMUNTION", 'ENEMY FIRE", 'LAND MINES', 'GRENADES', 'BLOOD SHED', AND, FINALLY "DEATH'! WHEN UNDER FIRE, AND EVERYONE IS IN THE SAME TRENCH OR FOX HOLE , PRAYING TO MAKE IT OUT WITH BOTH LIMBS, YOUR SIGHT, AND YOUR ORGANS NOT REARRANGED BY SHRAPNEL, THERE ARE NO 'CAPTAINS', MAJORS', LIEUTENANTS, OR 'GENERALS'! SPIRTUALLY, WE EXIST WITHIN THAT SAME REALM, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO BUILDING AND ADVANCING THE KINGDOM OF GOD. YES, EACH OF US HAVE AN ASSIGNED MANDATE AND A JOB DESCRIPTION, IN ORDER TO CARRY OUT OUR TASKS EFFECTIVELY, BUT LET US BE MINDFUL, AS NEVER BEFORE, TO HONOR AND REMEMBER THE "EQUALIZERS', THAT MAY PREVENT US FROM FINDING OURSELVES ENGAGED IN THE HEAT OF A BATTLE, ALONE WITH OUR "NAME TAGS AND MEDALS"', PRIDE AND 'FANFARE!"