Joshua Giles: Seek the Peace and Prosperity of Your City (Jeremiah 29:7)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-08-18

Joshua Giles: Seek the Peace and Prosperity of Your City (Jeremiah 29:7)
Joshua speaks with Elizabeth Tiam-Fook, founder of International Young Prophets on 8/2/2021.
Quotes: “In Jeremiah 29:7 God said, “You're going to be carried away into cities, but you must seek the peace of the city that you're in.” And he said, “If you bless the city, if your peace comes upon it, then God's going to favor or bless you.” And I think that's so powerful. When I first moved to Minneapolis, I was around so many people that were saying, we hate this city, we can't stand this area, we want to get out of here. If the Lord has brought us to a city, we have to bless it.”

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When the Lord gives you a word, sometimes he'll tell you, you need to do X, Y, and Z, you'll have the confirmation on it. You know it's God, but your life doesn't seem to line up with what God said. And so my entire world was turned upside down, and I was comfortable where I was in North Carolina, had a good church there that I was pastoring, along with a good team of leaders, and when the Lord said to me, you need to pick up what you're doing and move to Minneapolis because there's going to come a day where revival is going to hit Minneapolis and spread throughout the country.

You know, I was thinking, God, why that area, you know what, what's so significant about that area?
And the Lord doesn't always give it to you in, at one time, a lot of times he'll tell you what you need to know at that specific time. And he only told me what I needed to know, and so it took faith coming to the area. And so when I planted my church in Minneapolis, seven years ago, the Lord told me, I didn't just send you here to plant a church, and he said, your focus is going to be rebuilding cities and regions, and I believe that that's what's happening now with companies of prophets and apostles that are coming together.

Our focus is no longer building, just building churches. Well, how can we get the best edifice and sanctuary, or the biggest place, it's now, we need to take our cities back for the Kingdom of God. And so, it moves us from a religious mindset, a narrow mindset, to more of an expansive Kingdom mindset, when we understand that it's not just about four walls of a sanctuary. It's really about the education system within that city. It's about the local government there. It's about every single mountain and system submitting to the authority of Jesus Christ, and then we're going in as prophetic and apostolic voices to really rebuild, but to bring light in darkness.

And so that's one of the things that God has had me doing here in Minneapolis, and it started out with simple spiritual mapping, going in and doing strategic intercession, prayer walks, all night prayers. I know that a lot of our modern churches don't really do all night prayers anymore, but we still do them here. So we started out doing all night prayers and spiritual mapping in the area to find out what is the demonic stronghold that's here? What are the strongholds? What's the major principality that we see within the region? How can we counter that? What is our solution to that?

It's easy to focus on the problem - everybody can identify the problems in your city. But what is God saying about it? What is the solution to this? And so that's what we begin to focus on even before starting the church here. And when the Lord began to give us solutions in prayer, not only did we need to push them through in prayer and through prophetic word and declaration, but we also needed to put legs to the vision of what God said.

And that's why we had to go in, and we still do, we serve in our community every, every week, every month, we're serving whether it's in homeless shelters, whether it's giving back to our school system here, we're making sure that we're not just only speaking words, but we're also showing up with love in the community.

If we're going to get out of the religious box, we can't just preach at people and, you know, say, this is the word for you, and we don't show up with love when there is a need, when there is a situation that comes up. And what happened last year with the George Floyd situation, it was horrible, to see it, especially at the beginning, but we saw that this was a crisis, but it was also an opportunity. And if we can just remember that every crisis is an opportunity we will be able to really advance the Kingdom at that time.