Jill Austin, working as an award-winning professional potter, founded Master Potter Ministries over twenty-five years ago. When she was not occupied in her trade, she would visit churches, where she depicted the Master Potter creating His clay vessels on her potter's wheel. Combining music, drama and art, she brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost, as well as deep healing to the broken-hearted.
What began as a performing arts ministry quickly changed as the Manifest Presence of Holy Spirit began to move powerfully in her meetings, bringing renewal and awakening destiny to individuals and churches. God used these years to form this accomplished potter into a fiery preacher and one of the nation's most powerful prophetic voices.
Jill Austin's childlike faith, coupled with her fiery tenacity and resolute commitment to stand for the purposes of God, makes her a much sought after conference speaker. Imparting fresh hunger and passion for God is the hallmark of the powerful anointing she carries both nationally and internationally as she ministers throughout the United States and in nations around the world.
She has appeared on television programs such as the 700 Club, Praise the Lord, and TBN, as well as numerous radio talk shows. Her articles have been published in Last Days Magazine, SpiritLed Woman, and Thomas Nelson's Woman of Destiny Bible. She is the author of Master Potter, a soon to be released Christian allegory targeting both secular and Christian audiences.
GOD WILL USE THE TRAINING GROUND OF HIDDENNESS TO WORK A
DEATH IN YOU
Trained to Rule and Reign
How was David trained to rule and reign? He was trained by demonized King Saul!
What about Joseph? How was Joseph trained to rule and reign? The Lord custom-designed a prison sentence for him!
Esther was called to rule and reign, but first, she had to enter a pagan palace with a king who was definitely a heathen. He was someone who had an appetite for hundreds and hundreds of virgins. She would be but one of them.
The Lord is saying that He is going to strategically put you into places that you don't like "for such a time as this," AND He will work a death in you.
Can you trust Him in the most serious and diverse situations? Can you believe that He is a God who can touch you right where you live?
The Lord hasn't called us to be cloistered. He hasn't called us to sit inside the walls of the church. He has called us outside the walls of the church to start to affect our society!
Prepared in Hiddenness
Esther was prepared in hiddenness. She had a secret life of hiddenness and prayer. I am sure that she cried out to God often during that year of preparation, "Oh, God. Oh, God, I love You. I love You. I'm Yours. I don't want to be here. I'm a prisoner, but I'm Yours. I surrender my life. I surrender my dreams. I give You my destiny. I don't know what it looks like, but I give it all to You!"
She became the Queen and after that, you still read of the scores of virgins that were brought in for the appetite of the sensual pagan King.
Who was Mordecai? He was put in a governmental position as a gatekeeper--a watchman; an intercessor. He knew all the business that came in and out of the gate. He even heard of two men who were plotting to kill the King. He told Esther, who told the King, and those two men were hanged. We see Mordecai, as a Jew, also strategically being placed in hiddenness.
Esther's time of preparation and hiddenness was also a time of tears. It was a time where she had to go to "Gethsemane." It was a time where she had the work of the cross done in her life.
Many of you are in places of hiddenness. Like Mary, you are at the foot of the cross where it seems like all of your prophetic words have died. "Oh God, how can You make anything of this?" Mary didn't see the resurrection with her own eyes, she only saw the death. Esther, also, could only see the death. All she knew was that she was under house arrest so to speak!
If you've been in a place of hiddenness, be encouraged that God has a perfect plan for you and your role in the Kingdom.
Learn from the experiences of others presented to us in the Bible to trust Him with your destiny.
Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
