Podcast - The Greg Lancaster Show, Live from the Glory Zone.

Greg, John, and Pat discuss how you are in the game and how each person in God’s kingdom has role to play. Greg using a football team as an illustration shares at length the importance of understand that you are not a fan but rather in the game and not just in the game but you play a significant role. Every team has an owner, a coach, a quarterback, and position players. When the ball is thrown to you it is important for you to know that you are already on the team and it’s time to play. You are not watching but rather in your position. It’s time to wake up; you are not a fan but a player if you are born again. Many have not played their part and have caused others to get hurt. We must take the field and play all out for the owner, Father God.

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Greg, John, and Pat discuss the rising of the Apostolic Church as they discuss Chuck Pierce’s recent correspondence where he discusses his new book co-authored by Robert Heidler The Apostolic Church Arising: Tearing Down the Pastoral Sacred Cow and Rebuilding God’s House for the Future! They continued to discuss a recent prophetic vision given to Steve Bailey by God where God showed him how he was going to crush the “podiums” meaning where God’s truth was not preached. They shared the account written about in Tommy Tenney’s book God Chasers where lightning struck a podium and drove the person behind it up against the wall. God is going to take His Church back. He gives gifts to the Church but they are not to Lord over the church. The burden of carrying a religious monstrosity is over. It’s time for the church to abide with God and share His message to His people.

The Persecuted Church: Of All Religious Persecutions Around the World 75% are Christians

Greg, John, and Pat discuss the persecuted church in the world. They continue to discuss the religious persecutions of Christians worldwide. According to CBN, “North Korea tops the country list each year as the worst persecutor of Christians. If discovered, North Korea believers are arrested, tortured, and killed for their faith.” It’s not just North Korea it’s also countries like Pakistan and Somalia who are some of the greatest perpetrators of such horrific persecution of Christians. The persecuted Church around the world meets undercover. They worship in whispers and even cover their heads to muffle the sound. If they are caught they are arrested, beaten, tortured, and some are even beheaded. Some of the Christians who have been persecuted don’t pray for the persecution to stop but rather for them to remain faithful in the midst of such persecutions. They encourage us to pray daily for the persecuted church. They also suggest this is our outcome for Christians living in America for rejecting God. When the church gets it right the land and the people are blessed. This can be avoided if the church repents and gets under Jesus.

John, Greg, and Pat discuss food in America and discuss how fragile it is in view to America’s response to God. They discuss a recent program John watched called “America Revealed”, in which the program was designed to reveal what is happening in America in regards to food mainly how it is grown. The program is designed to highlight the blessed abundance of how food is grown and harvested but John continues to discuss how he saw it as a great vulnerability in light of America turning away from God. They discuss how 60 years ago going out for dinner was a rare thing Americans did and when they did go out to dine it was for special occasions. Today all that has changed necessitating the need to produce more food is to keep up with America’s consumption. Even the cost of water is 50 percent of one farmers cost. Many food items found in our grocery stores today travel thousands of miles. Today it takes just 2 percent of America’s population to produce food for 98 percent. All of this is occurring while many in the church are not honoring God. This is not a sign of American strength but rather a sign of America’s vulnerability since it has become a nation who has left and turned away from following God. It doesn’t take much for that 2% to be affected causing America to be humbled wondering where has all the food gone. We need to cry out to God and ask for His mercy. We can’t be prepared for what is coming unless the church repents. Just like God used Joseph to be prepared you too can abide with God and hear for His leading and directing.

Greg, John, and Pat discuss how God is the God of the Harvest. They continue to discuss how every harvest both spiritual and physical all belong to God. This is a “holiday” that glorifies Baal and darkness where millions of wasted dollars are spent every year. The Bible tells us that Jezebel and Ahab worshipped Baal, the false god, who claimed to be god of the harvest. The Bible describes a show down between Elijah, God’s prophet and the prophets of Baal to prove who is the true God of the harvest. Of course God shows himself strong as the true God of the harvest. They continue to discuss that when we are not tithing to God you are worshiping Baal as the God of the harvest. This fall season is not a time to glorify darkness but instead a time to remember the Lord as the God of the Harvest. It is a time of expressing our appreciation and thanks to the Lord. There is hope for America when we repent and turn to God as God of the harvest. One of the things we can do that they discussed is to take overt action when it comes to the day when many are celebrating darkness and bring darkness to your door. They encourage us to be proactive and make up some baskets with fruit from the harvest with some candy sprinkled in, that does not have dark images, and give them to a few of your surrounding neighbors as a “LIGHT” testimony of God’s provision and faithfulness.

Greg, John, and Pat discuss how perspective matters. We must not believe the enemy’s lies and deception. Whenever we are to weigh in on a matter it is important to seek perspective and that may involve a time of abiding and seeking God for a period of time to allow God to unfold to you what He wants you to see. If we don’t Lucifer will deceive us into making wrong decisions and eventually into bondage. Things are happening all around us to poke and nudge us to take action. How we respond to this nudging and poking makes all the difference. That’s why it’s important to have the right perspective when it comes to Jesus. He is the exact representation of our invisible God. Jesus did perfectly what we have consistently failed at. He made all things and all things exist because of him. He is the supreme leader. He is the one who watches over everything. He knows everything that we are going through and the perspective we have regarding what we are going through. Don’t look to others or yourself always look to Jesus for the right perspective on everything.

Congress Stenographer Takes Over and Shouts, 'God Will Not Be Mocked'

John, Greg, and Pat discuss a recent occurrence that took place in Congress when House of Representatives were voting to reopen the government from its most recent shutdown. As the vote was taking place Diane Reidy, the House stenographer, approached the microphone and declared “Praise be to God. He will not be mocked”. Charisma News reports that Diane said “For the past 2 1/2 weeks the Holy Spirit has been waking me up in the middle of the night and preparing me (through my reluctance and doubt) to deliver a message in the House Chamber,” she told “Fox News” Chad Pergram in a statement. “That is what I did last night.” They continue to discuss the importance of standing up and declaring what God tells you to say and to do what he tells you to do. The Holy Spirit is moving upon believers everywhere to do God’s will. The question is what will you do when He moves upon you to speak truth to power. If you don’t obey God their blood will be on your hands. Step out and obey Him.

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Greg, John, and Pat discuss the importance of not being deceived; disciples make disciples. They continue to discuss the conversation that David Plat and Franci Chan have over this very same issue. Francis speaks about the children’s game Simon Says and the children follow but today the church doesn’t do what Jesus says they regard God’s word as mere suggestions. They continue to share the importance of not to be quick to say that someone came into the kingdom but rather to wait on fruit in their life that points to the fact that they indeed have come into the kingdom. They continue to discuss the importance of not focusing on mouth statements but action. It’s important not to just hear God’s word but to put God’s word into practice. There must be implementation of God’s word in our life if we claim to know Him. It’s worse to claim to know the light, God, and his word and not do what it says because you are just deceiving yourself. They continue to encourage us to abide in God’s word and to do what God instructs us to do.

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Greg, John, and Pat discuss the 80 lashes Christians were given in Iran. “A court in Iran has sentenced four Christians to 80 lashes each for drinking wine during a communion service” according to CBN. God and Jesus alone are supreme and Muhammad is a lie. Just the mention of Jesus’ name brings outrage. If you ever wondered about the potency of the blood of Jesus you need not look any further. Satan is terrified of the blood of Jesus and will do anything to come against it as if he could. Communion and water baptism bring such outrage because they represent in essence what it means to follow Jesus and declare Him Lord. Our present leadership had done little to nothing to take action against such horrific assaults on Christians in Muslim countries. They encourage us to pray for the persecuted church. We mustn’t forget our persecuted brothers all over the world. They also lead us in a prayer over the people of Iran that they may all come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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Greg, John, and Pat discuss how perspective matters. We must not believe the enemy’s lies and deception. Whenever we are to weigh in on a matter it is important to seek perspective and that may involve a time of abiding and seeking God for a period of time to allow God to unfold to you what He wants you to see. If we don’t Lucifer will deceive us into making wrong decisions and eventually into bondage. Things are happening all around us to poke and nudge us to take action. How we respond to this nudging and poking makes all the difference. That’s why it’s important to have the right perspective when it comes to Jesus. He is the exact representation of our invisible God. Jesus did perfectly what we have consistently failed at. He made all things and all things exist because of him. He is the supreme leader. He is the one who watches over everything. He knows everything that we are going through and the perspective we have regarding what we are going through. Don’t look to others or yourself always look to Jesus for the right perspective on everything.

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