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Tracey Mitchell: Prophetic Word on THE SOIL AND THE SEED. Don’t sell out the sacred soil of what God has given you.
February 24, 2024 at CWIMA

… Of any size. He [GOD] said, soon the false fruit will be shriveled on the vine. He said, I will pull up and burn long vines that continue to produce toxic fruit. He said, seeds that have been planted in shallow and superficial soil will be scorched from the inside out. He said the vine dresser is coming to separate the vintners, the merchants from my true [vintners]. And the next part of this I’ve heard it reverberated not only from my mouth, but from the mouths of others.

He said, soon my people are going to experience a mega reset followed by a mega release. He said, but the term “Mega” will not be ascribed to mega church, mega ministry or mega meetings. He said, “Mega” will no longer be defined by size, but by sustenance for the germination process of a mega harvest. What we need, four things: examination, elimination, revelation and prophetic impartation. Examination of what’s actual spiritual weight.

He said, don’t be seduced in 2024 out of your holy consecration. For it is the holy consecration that will lead to revelation. He said, two, elimination of toxic alliances and overweight egos. Third, a baptism of revelation that will provide for faith, foresight to see the end of a thing before it ever begins. And lastly, prophetic impartation that will usher in a global anointing.

I believe that some of you are in divine crossroads, circling back to our text. Some time later, there will be an incentive. I believe that this is a divine strategic timeline with the time table of God, that we are at multiple crossroads in our culture, in the world and the church, in our politics and on and on we could go, and I challenge you, don’t sell out the sacred soil of what God has given you.

They tell us that in India there’s a chamber, a vault. It’s called Vault B that has over one trillion dollars, not a million, not a billion. But a trillion dollars worth of wealth. It’s called the forbidden zone. No one pursues it because there’s a religious stronghold, a superstition and tradition that is over it. Let me ask you, as I leave you with this one question.

What is your Vault B? What is your Vault B? What is your super soil that God has entrusted to you and no one else? And why are you not pursuing?

ALVEDA KING: Thanksgiving 2023 Reflections — Planting Gratitude and Harvesting a Bounty

“Thank God for what we have left.” — Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

For many people, the Thanksgiving season is a time for expressing gratitude to God for our many blessings. I have been spending time this season reflecting on how grateful I am to have been raised by my parents, Rev. A.D. King and Dr. Naomi King. My father’s legacy lives on in his powerful sermons, and writings, and in the work and lives of his children.

While my mother Naomi, also known by her fans as “the Butterfly Queen,” is 92, years old now, she continues to advocate globally for peace and justice. I recently traveled to Amsterdam as her stand-in as she was slated to share her long-earned wisdom with the world.

While the world seems to be crumbling around us, we must take heart in the lessons of our fathers and mothers who survived during much darker days than these. In those dark hours, their lips did not drip with hate; rather they turned to the wisdom of the Scriptures to guide their actions.

Matthew 5:44 tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. This is one of the cornerstones of my parents’ teaching. While I constantly pray to make sense of today’s chaos from the streets of Atlanta to the kibbutz of Israel, I remain determined to maintain a posture of gratitude. Again I return to the Scriptures for guidance. Psalms 122:6 says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” So I continue to pray.

Some will argue that in a world consumed by strife and division, these principles are impractical; mere platitudes in the face of real challenges. For me, embracing a posture of gratitude becomes not just an act of defiance but a revolutionary stance as powerful as my family’s commitment to nonviolence in the face of injustice and brutality.

Oddly enough, a recent manifestation of gratitude has taken me by surprise in a most unexpected manner. In the spirit of love for the land of my birth, ingrained in my upbringing, I’ve taken steps to become a community farmer. Truly, following many years of being grateful for the bounty that comes from my home garden, I am now a resource farmer.

I may not be the proverbial “farmer in the Dell”, but I did become a farmer in a day through a program that I will be sharing more about in the coming weeks. In October, after many years of successful “home gardening,” I officially became a registered farmer with the United States Department of Agriculture.

This phase of my life’s journey is a renewal, a rebirthing—a tangible harvest of blessings. My lifelong passion for seed time and harvest is another gift inherited from my ancestors—a small but powerful reminder of our constant renewal and rebirthing. In cultivating the earth, I feel a profound gratitude for times of harvest; great and small. In the landscape of gratitude, farming becomes a metaphor for intentional cultivation — a practice that results in harvest.

Amidst the uncertainties we face, let’s not underestimate the impact of gratitude as a tool to cultivate fruits of unity and understanding. My life’s journey continues to be a testament to the idea that much like a diligent farmer tends to the land, we all have the power to tend to the world around us by planting a grateful attitude wherever we go.