March 2, 2025 – The Bread for the Week – A Prophetic Call to Marketplace Revival: Stewarding God’s Vision for Business and Creation
Good afternoon, MKBA family. I hope you’ve had a good week and enjoyed worship and learning the Word in church today, whether you were present or watched online.
I’m changing things up a bit today. I want to share some of the prophetic things God has been speaking to me about. I had the pleasure of attending Rick’s Round Table here at MorningStar with one of our fellow KBA members, Chris Powers. It was a powerful time, and God spoke to me tremendously through the messages and visions shared by the generals of the faith gathered around the table. It was a very profitable time—both in the sense of financial gain and spiritual insight.
I just want to share some of what God spoke to me during this time. Marc Nuttle, who is on our board, gave us all great hope by reassuring us that the dollar is strong and that we cannot fail. Everything hinges on us. All the noise you hear is just blustering and posturing, but when it comes down to it, America is still in the lead and will always remain in the lead, both economically and spiritually.
During this Round Table, the Lord spoke to me, saying:
“Mark, the landscape is changing—not only in your daily dollar stewardship but also in the creative anointing that is coming to take its place in the earth. This is the end-time business culture, inventions, and revelatory ways. It’s a John the Baptist call to commerce and industry, assembled under righteousness and justice. It is not a newly devised way; it is the way I conceived to match the times that you live in. Knowledge of Me and vision of Me are key to knowing what to change. Change is not optional—it is a command. There is a new use for people’s skill sets.”
There are two bondages I want to break: the love of money and the deceitfulness of riches. The Lord continued, saying,
“Mark, people must understand the government of their money—not just their tax status or anything natural—but remember, each of you is called to a dog-like quality of stewardship over your own finances, and this is of excellence unto Me. Make sure everyone understands and knows where their money is going.”
One of the common themes at the Round Table was the emergence of a new breed of leaders in every area of the church and all seven mountains of culture. Everyone who spoke agreed that there was a call—a call to your closet, a call to be real with God, to take a truthful look at yourself. There was also a call to repentance, but also a trumpet blast—a new spiritual anointing for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear the strategy and wisdom of God for the coming times. Those who align with this will naturally succeed in their rightful endeavors.
I say this to emphasize that as heaven draws closer to earth, there is less leeway in how we do things. We must hone in and focus on doing what we see our Father do and saying what we hear Him say. This doesn’t mean you should wait in your closet every morning for God to tell you to wear a blue shirt. I knew I was going to film today, and my wife tells me blue is a good color, so I wore it. But hearing God’s voice goes beyond that.
We must remember that the Word of God, the written Word, is His voice. Anything in that Word we can go forth and do. It’s not about sitting around waiting; it’s about faith without works being dead. We must move in the Word, in faith, in gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, and love. These qualities are part of our everyday life. But when it comes to impacting culture and showing His glory through what we do, we must be sensitive to the wisdom of God for the things He is leading us to do.
I can’t tell you how much hope I felt seeing all these men gathered, concerned for the body of Christ and the glory of God, with a heart for everyone who is not yet a Christian to become one. It was truly an awesome time.
One of the other things the Lord showed me was about our imagination. He said,
“Mark, your mind and imagination will feed your true skill set and enhance your desires to please Me.”
This made me reflect on whether we have developed a false skill set—skills that may not be our true calling. Our true skill set is rooted in the gifts of the Spirit, the fruits of the Spirit, and our redemptive gifts. These are innate in us, and when we combine them with what we’ve learned, we discover our true skill set.
I believe God is positioning us with assets to help us open up the Kingdom of God, to take dominion, to be fruitful and multiply, to love one another, and to build what we are called to build. Whether you’re apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral, or teaching, there’s an opportunity to create in the end times in a way that uses the full skill set that we have within us. We can employ both our innate gifts and the skills we’ve learned on earth to impact the world around us.
I believe the anointing that is coming is one of creation, and it’s from the Creator Himself. The greatest thing we can be in this season is a co-creator with God as we move forward.
I want to read Isaiah 58 because God kept impressing it upon me. When I read it, I was shocked by what it was about. But let’s see here. He said, instead of spending or making, how about stewarding and governing? This is how you actually legislate the kingdom.
You think about it, you know, there’s the executive branch and the Torah branch, legislative branch. We have those same things in the kingdom, right? And you hear me talk about this, and I’ll keep on harping on it because it’s one of my callings: to get you to understand that through your kingdom authority, you govern.
Again, I’ll say it—let’s go from the parable of the talents in Matthew to the parable of the talents in Luke. We want to make a difference. We want to be given the authority to govern our cities. With our true skill set, we can, because we’ll be skilled in the truth. This will allow the Spirit to get behind what we are doing, because Jesus is the truth, and the Spirit says, “I only came to reflect the Son.” The Son says, “I only came to bring glory to the Father.”
We are part of that providence chain of bringing restoration, revival, truth—everything that is God’s business, plus the things we do in our commerce.
There are a few more things to mention. Oh, this one was interesting. The Lord started talking about business revival and said, “Burn it to the ground and let a preservation of community come forth. Find the important things, and then go from there in innovation and importance.”
I asked the Lord, “What does that mean?” and He said, “Mark, I’ve always told you to do this. I want you to hold everything loosely and put everything on the altar.”
This is the time, folks. We’re in a 1 Corinthians 3:12 time. God says, “Give it to me. I’ll burn up all the hay, wood, and straw, and I’ll give you back everything built on gold, silver, and precious stones.”
We’re in a time of purification. It’s not about going through trials and tribulations, but simply submitting. I know it’s hard when you’ve been doing something successfully for 30 years, but I’m telling you, there is a call to go higher in the Spirit of the Lord. There is freedom. And in verse 18, it says, “We are going from glory to glory to glory.” We are being offered a new glory to glorify God in these days. It holds a special place in the marketplace.
Now, I’m going to read from the Message version of Isaiah 58. I was reading it in the Amplified version and then heard a little voice saying, “You need to read that in the Message.” So, here it is:
Isaiah 58: Shout a full-throated shout, hold nothing back, a trumpet blast shout. Tell my people what’s wrong with their lives. Face my family, Jacob, with their sins. They’re busy, busy, busy at worship and they love studying all about me. To all appearances, they’re a nation of right-living people, law-abiding and God-honoring. But they ask me, “What’s the right thing to do?” And they love having me on their side, but they also complain, “Why do we fast, and you don’t look our way? Why do we humble ourselves, and you don’t even notice? We serve you!” And He said, “You’re serving me to get something, right?”
The bottom line on your fast days is profit. And that’s P-R-O-F-I-T. You drive your employees too hard. You fast, but at the same time, you bicker and fight. You fast, but you swing a mean fist. The kind of fasting you do will not get your prayers off the ground. Do you think this is the kind of fast that I’m after, says the Lord—a day to show off humility, to put on a pious, long face and parade around solemnly in black? Do you call that fasting, a fast day that I, God, would like?
This is the kind of fast day I’m after, says the Lord: to break the chains of injustice, to get rid of exploitation in the workplace, to free the oppressed and cancel debts. Sounds a lot like Isaiah 61 and Luke 4:18.
What I’m interested in, says the Lord, is seeing you do this—sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless and poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, and being available to your own families.
When you do this, the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your righteousness will pave your way, and the God of glory will secure your passage. Then, when you pray, God will answer, and you can call out for help, and He’ll say, “Here I am.”
The words of a loving God to set us straight. But those are words for today. Go back and read that in whatever translation you like, but that Message version really hits home.
As you can tell, it speaks to us about a lot of things, but it also gives us wisdom. I know sitting here, there’s no way that I’m living my life exactly right. So, I want the Lord to show me everywhere I’m not living right because I want to prosper. This isn’t a prosperity teaching, but when you look at the words and definitions, the Lord says, “I will wholly prosper you.” Everything about you will be better.
I believe this is a call to the marketplace. I never thought I’d see it come from Isaiah 58, but when you read it, it connects so much to the marketplace and commerce.
You know that word I like better than “marketplace”? It’s ara. It talks about a place where you do all your family business—where you talk about politics, play cards, and merchants come around. It’s where life, commerce, and economies surround, not the other way around. These are the places where Jesus went and spoke.
I hope this edifies you. I know this was a long recording today, but I believe it was the heart of God. I hope it was a full meal for you, and that’s your nugget for the day.
