Allow Me To Be Your Anchor

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The world you live in can become a place you do not recognize anymore, but I never change. I remain a God of great love, of peace, and of joy. I am constant, I do not change with the wind, and I remain as I’ve always been.

 

I am faithful, dependable, and consistent day after day. Life brings about change and seasons of change come and go. Some changes are good and some bring grief and pain. But I invite you to put your hope in One who never changes and remains the same.

 

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 6:19-20

 

Allow me to be your Anchor.

 

Allow me to be your Strength and your Stability.

 

And when the winds blow and the sea grows bold with its waves, know it will be I that holds you in place within me. Remain focused on me and remember who I am and my character. For remembering me within the seasons of change, will be your comfort and strength.

 

I do not change. I remain the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Depend and rely on me and when others fail you and nations are in an uproar, you will not falter and you will not lose hope. Keep your eyes on me.

 

Our Authority In Christ

Just like with Moses, we also have been given a staff. Our staff is our authority in Christ to stand against the enemy. There are different ways to wage war against him. And the Holy Spirit will not only lead us into battle, but He will lead us how to fight. 

 

Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.” 

Exodus 14:13-16

 

Taking authority over the enemy is one way to fight. 

 

The enemy works desperately hard to put us in a state of confusion and despair. He aims to rob us of our confidence in knowing who we are in Christ, that we are loved by God and received by Him fully. His plan is always to separate us from God. A plan that has been his only pursuit for the human race beginning all the way back in Genesis with Adam and Eve.

 

Having already committed our lives to the Lord does not protect us from the enemy taking pleasure in trying to harm our relationship with our Creator today. In fact, he seems relentless in his efforts in doing this. If he can get us on shaky ground, leading us to doubt the faithfulness, goodness and love of God in our lives, then he can easily hold us back from our pursuit of God and walking in our identity in Christ.

 

Our confidence in our relationship with the Lord and who He truly is is our faith in action.

 

We are confident that God will move on our behalf, we are confident that His plans are for our good, and we are confident that the promises He provides us in His Word stand strong in our lives as well.

 

Losing confidence in the Lord equates to us not having faith in what He has told us and what He has already done for us. And we do not take our authority that we rightfully have in Christ if we are easily tossed back and forth in waves of doubt.

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We must be determined and resolute in our thinking. We must not shrink back from the authority we have in Christ and from our positions on His wall. We must take up arms in spiritual warfare on a consistent and daily basis. 

 

And we must be mindful of how the enemy works, but not afraid of him. 

 

For in Christ Jesus, we have authority over all the attacks of the enemy against us and against those we intercede for. We have more power and authority than we probably realize and, yet, we live our lives unaware of the threat we really are to the enemy.

 

Think about it. In order for the enemy to prevent us from coming at him, he would have to do his best to convince us that we have nothing on him? That we are actually unable to fight against him? He taunts us with lies, hoping we would believe them and never come at him.

 

This is what the enemy does to us. He works against us through deception and intimidation, but in reality he has nothing on us. We take blow after blow and cry out to God for help. But we overlook the help God has already provided us. He has given us a weapon. And we need to stand up and use it and fight. 

 

Our weapon is His Word and our faith in the fact that our victory has been sealed. We just need to stand up and declare this over every area of our lives that does not align with His Word. And we need to take our stand against the enemy and his attacks. 

A Word For March

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A new month is upon us; a season is changing. We are coming out of a dark winter of intense spiritual warfare and stepping into a season where the winds are blowing and the rain is falling.

 

The winds will divinely blow everything into place and the rains will wash away the struggles and despair of the previous warfare season. All this will take place in order for Spring to show up with the flowers ready for blooming and the sun receiving its orders to shine brightly.

 

Let the Lord move His hands, move things in position in order for the Spring season we have all been hoping and looking towards shows up in a correct and righteous manner. Movement can be painful, however, for those who are and have been unwilling to move in the past. These movements have a purpose to align us with the heart and plans of God.

 

This “Winds of Movement” is unique. Everything will be impacted with this movement, whether you participate willingly or not.

 

For others, they have been prepared, already having experienced being uprooted and replanted in previous seasons, and they have remained open to the movements of God about to continue in their lives. It will not be as painful because they have allowed themselves to be prepared.

 

Again, this movement month of March is necessary and of the hand of God. Do not mistaken it as the work of the enemy in your life. Have discernment, lean into the voice of the Lord, and continue to put your hope in the promise that God is at work and His will is being accomplished.

 

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” 

Romans 8:28

 

 

Boldness

Boldness in sharing our faith comes by the Holy Spirit. He emboldens us to open our mouths and gives us the words to share with others. 

 

“Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. 

Acts 4:29-31

 

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If you have people in your life that need to hear the message of Jesus and what He has done for them on the cross, then let me encourage you to begin to pray for them to have hearts softened to hear the voice of the Lord. 

 

And also pray for yourself to receive boldness from His Spirit when an opportune time is available to share with them. 

 

A lot of times we find ourselves unaware of the work of God in the lives of those around us. And when they do not have faith in the Lord, we falsely assume that God is not in pursuit of their hearts. But in fact, He actually is.

 

Asking the Lord to help you become aware of God working in people around you will also make you aware of how you can be praying for them and preparing yourself to boldly share your faith with them. 

 

It is not an easy thing to bring up a discussion on faith and our relationship with the Lord with people who do not share our beliefs, but it is something we need to pray and ask the Lord for help with. 

 

God wants your friend to know Him. And God wants to invite you to be an instrument to be used by Him to introduce that friend of yours to Himself. 

 

When we ask the Lord for boldness, that does not mean the fear or the awkwardness of discussing spiritual beliefs disappears. It means, despite the obstacles we face with sharing our faith, the Holy Spirit is able and more than willing to empower us to share boldly anyways. 

 

Sharing our faith should be a sharing of who you are and a natural thing. When a friend that does not walk with God asks me about things like my favorite hobbies or interests, or what I am passionate about, I am given an opportunity to share about my love for Jesus. And to find ourselves on that level of communication with others means we need to invest in those relationships with open hearts and be willing to love them with the love of God.

 

Discover people in your life that you can be praying for today. Jot their names down in a journal and take time to pray for them everyday and when the Lord brings them to mind. And continue to pray for boldness when the Lord opens a door for you to share your faith and His Gospel with them. 

 

Happy sharing friends!

Understanding Is Returning

I had a vision one night last week that revealed that the Lord was going to bring back to His children the eyes of understanding. He was going to begin allowing us to understand the warfare that has been coming against us and how to see our circumstances as they truly are. I held onto this promise, knowing that I was struggling myself to understand my own life circumstances.

 

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Fear is a red flag for me that lets me know that I am not placing my confidence and trust in the Lord about a situation. And when I begin to struggle with fear, I also begin to search my heart of what I am afraid of and why.

 

The past month has been super challenging for me on a personal level. A few circumstances rocked my boat and I struggled up until recently with believing God was for me. It was hard.

 

What I did not realize was that I was harboring a fear deep within me, a fear of rejection actually. This fear immobilized me to stand my ground with a certain individual in my life. I feared that if I allowed healthy boundaries to be placed in this relationship, then that person would cut me off.

 

I had allowed my fear to allow that other individual to have power over me and to easily manipulate me. This fear that I had, that I continue to fight against, was hidden from me. I had no idea that it was ruling over me and that I had handed over my power to it.

 

When I realized what was happening, and what had been happening in this relationship for almost a year now, I repented to the Lord, asking Him to forgive me for handing my power and free will over to someone else out of fear. I also praised Him for helping me understand what was really going on with this relationship, remembering the vision He gave me about “the eyes of understanding” returning to His own.

 

I then decided to take my power back. I first declared to myself that I was no longer going to be afraid to be cut off and rejected. I declared that if this individual chose to act in a way that rejected me, I would be fine with their decision. I would not like it, but I can still choose to live my life fully and happily despite their actions.

 

As I was declaring this, I felt my power return. I felt the fear leave and its taunting voice. It was no longer ruling over me and I felt free. I continued to pray for this individual. I also prayed spiritual warfare prayers against the constant attacks of the enemy via this individual.

 

God then revealed to my heart what I had done. I had broken a stronghold that was forming and an attachment that was unhealthy with this person. He told me I was much more powerful than I was allowing myself credit for and that He made me this powerful through His Son.

 

This individual called me shortly after and, to my surprise, was treating me nice. It was certainly spiritual warfare coming against me. And the Lord wanted me to remember how our battles are not against flesh and blood. I very easily forget this truth.

 

The Lord wants you to be set free as well. He wants you to stand against a fear in your life that is dominating your decisions and behavior. So let God set you free and allow Him to reveal to you what fear is trying to have a hold on you.

 

This is a season of God blessing us with His  eyes  of understanding of our situations and lives. I pray that as you begin to understand clearly what the enemy tried to disrupt with confusion, that you will see and receive encouragement from the Holy Spirit with how to move forward in victory in Him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hearts Of Compassion

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Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.” 

Matthew 15:32

 

In the darkest of seasons, hearts full of compassion shine brightest.

 

A heart cannot remain full of love and compassion in trying times without the Spirit of God.

 

And when we allow His Spirit to fill us with compassion for those around us, then the dark season turns light within those compassionate moments.

 

We are choosing to be a living sacrifice for God while most in this world choose selfish acts.

 

This is what differs us from the world. We remain in hope and peace while many fall deeper into despair and confusion.

 

This does not mean we won’t experience negative emotions as we process our lives, but it does mean we have an ability to choose to allow the Lord to strengthen us despite our challenging situations and how we feel about them.

 

Jesus was full of compassion for those He ministered to while here on the earth. It is out of His heart of compassion that He chose to help them in miraculous ways. 

 

“When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.” 

Matthew 14:14

 

Jesus chose to have compassion even in the midst of His own sorrow. In this verse above we see Jesus choosing to have compassion on a large crowd right before He heals their sick. Prior to this, He had learned about the brutal death of John the Baptist and had retreated alone to a solitary place by boat. However, when Jesus saw how large crowds had found Him and were following Him on foot, He chose to have compassion on them. 

 

That example of compassion amazes me, and mostly because in His sorrow Jesus found room to still show love and compassion. This definitely reminds me of the verse that encourages us to be ready in and out of season to be used by the Lord. 

 

“Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction.”

2 Timothy 4:2 

 

This type of love and compassion can only be sourced from the Holy Spirit. It is a supernatural compassion to be able to love and help others in need when you yourself are going through a difficult time in your life. 

 

Loving someone else in their dark season while you are walking through yours, will help your focus remain on the Lord. Serving others with a heart of compassion provides us the blessing of having a shift in our perspectives about our situations. It places our eyes on God and we cannot but help see our situations through His eyes. 

 

If there is anything that you can do in the midst of your trials, it is to still choose to be an individual full of compassion for those in need and to be available to be used by God in any season of your life.

We Are The Temple Of God

Through the prophet Ezekiel, God spoke a lot of judgment against the sin in the leadership of His people, as well as, with the people themselves and surrounding nations.

 

And after He promises judgment and the cleaning of the nation of its detestable acts and worship of idols, He then begins to promise His restoration of His people. He promises them the hope of raising them up again under the leadership of One King, prophetically speaking of the reign of Christ.

 

And then we come to a place where God shows Ezekiel the restoration of His temple. He shows Ezekiel a great vision of the temple and its measurements and different rooms and functions.

 

And He explains that His glory will return to the temple!

 

“…the glory of the Lord filled the temple..”

Ezekiel 43:5c

 

“He said: ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name…”

Ezekiel 43:7 a,b

 

As I was reading this I kept being drawn to verses found in the New Testament, verses that say that we are the temple of God. And that being God’s temple, the Spirit of God dwells within us and lives with us.

 

“What argument is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.’”

2 Corinthians 6:16

 

So God calls us out to be holy! He calls us out to avoid idol worship because He already dwells within us, His believers.

 

If we try and wrap our minds around being a temple for the Lord, a temple where He promises Ezekiel that His glory returns to after it is made clean, after the detestable practices and the idol worship are not defiling His holy name any longer, then we will recognize our own personal need to have our hearts cleansed.

 

If we allow God to clean out our temple, to clean out our hearts of different sins, then His glory will have room to fill us up.

 

But if we do not allow God to clean us out, then we are missing out on a promise that He gave us where He says:

 

“My dwelling place will be with them; I will be there God, and they will be my people.”

Ezekiel 37:27

 

God promises that He will dwell with us and He is! He will be with us, but we need to live a life void of placing other idols ahead of Him.

 

 

If we truly want the glory of God to manifest within us through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we must continue to keep our temples clean. We do this by the grace of God, asking Him to clean out anything that does not honor Him.

 

The more parts of us that we yield to the Lord, the more He has a place within us. But if we hold anything back from Him and keep it for ourselves, telling Him that He cannot have this part of us which becomes a form of idol worship within us, then we are robbing ourselves of that promise that He has given us all the way back in the book of Ezekiel.

 

We need to make ourselves available for Him to live in every part of us so that His glory is able to be reflected in our own lives, and so that His presence is seen in our actions and our words.

 

Paul understood this as a great miracle when God chose to make His children a temple that He can dwell in and glorify Himself through. It is an honor to be considered a temple of the Lord and we must live as such and abandon things that we’ve held onto tightly, things that the Holy Spirit continues to convict us over and over again to yield to Him.

 

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;”

1 Corinthians 6:19

 

Yes, we are not our own. And God, by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, has fulfilled a promise spoken through Ezekiel. We are living out that promise as believers in Christ today, for His temple, that’s us, is filled with His glory! Let His glory dwell in you!

 

“My dwelling place will be with them; I will be there God, and they will be my people.”

Ezekiel 37:27

Prophetic Voices Being Called Back

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I had a dream where I was sitting at a table listening in on an interview with a boss and an individual that had been in this interview process before.

 

I recognized this individual as a dear friend from my past who had at one time a sincere and close relationship with the Lord, but because of life and pain and hurts he had not kept his intimate relationship with God, though still a believer. And because of that he lost a position he was being screened for to be a mighty prophetic voice for the Lord.

 

My heart was incredibly happy to see this friend of mine returning back to where he left off in this interview process. He appeared more determined than ever before to fulfill a call placed on his life.. and the boss, recognizing this man, was also eager to give him a second chance at attempting to fill the vacant position.

 

Friends, God is calling people back to Himself and their calling in this hour! Friends of yours that have walked away from pursuing their calling will return, some will come back and choose salvation in Him again. They have abandoned their posts because of trials and siftings, taking offense to God for Him allowing such intense hardships to take place in their lives. But they are returning.. because HE is wooing them back.

 

“Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again. They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols. I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.'”

Ezekiel 11:17-19

 

Wherever their hearts have turned in their rebellion, to whatever places they have been scattered, to whatever idols they were worshiping…. it does not matter when God softens their hearts towards Him again. They will return in full repentance and with minds and hearts set on only Him. It will be wonderful!

 

As we have walked this race, too many I personally know have fallen away, and surprisingly some that had a gift of speaking prophetically. And my hearts sings as I have not ceased praying for these to return, because God is moving to gather them to Him as a hen does her chicks.

 

Pray with me for those that have turned away from their calling to come back to it and God. Pray that as they walk into their hour of being screened and interviewed in order to be used by Him in a great way(for trust, loyalty and faithfulness to God needs to be tested) that they would not give up in their process. Pray that they withstand their personal testings to be shown that they can be trusted with the words and heart of God.

 

To be clear, salvation is a free gift in Christ, but I am talking about a returning to a calling on one’s life, not salvation alone. To be trusted with assignments from the Lord you have to withstand trials and testings. And the dream was specifically for those that had abandoned their calling within their hour of testing.

 

We are in a grace season for them to return and step into who God is calling them to be fully! Prophetic voices are being called back!

 

As evil is being revealed and uncovered in our nation and the world, the righteous are being prepared to take their stand.

 

“All the trees of the forest will know that I the LORD bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.”

Ezekiel 17:24 

 

God can definitely multi-task, I may not be able to, but He can! At the same time that darkness troubles our hearts the more it becomes exposed, He is still speaking loud and clear to encourage and uplift His own.

 

And as each nasty principality raises its’ head to combat what God is now doing, do not let that alarm you or put fear in you.

 

Things have been hidden behind closed doors for a long time, and more and more will be exposed in the light. It will be troubling and awful, but that does not take away God’s involvement in our lives and HIS good plans for us.

 

Evil has to be exposed in order for judgement to be brought down on its’ head. This is a time to rejoice! To see our God move mightily and swiftly in this hour.

 

Discern good from evil.. listen to the Spirit of God.. He will speak to you if you ask and seek.

 

But to not work out of a discerning heart and to choose to be ignorant for comforts sake, will lead you in the wrong direction and keep you blind.

 

Let Him remove that blindfold and grace you to be ready and prepared to see truth. Let Him prepare you to take your stand!

 

  “It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name….”

Ezekiel 36:22b

 

Anything the Lord does for our nation is not done for our sake, it is done for the glorifying of His name and making Him known to other nations.

 

In fact, our nation is so steeped in sin and the church is not shining as bright as God intends for her, that any acts of mercy and grace shown us by God are not because of what we have done.

 

Nothing we do will be enough to deserve His hand of grace … our salvation is grace alone in Jesus and we never worked or could work enough to bring ourselves to have that salvation.

 

So then why do we feel entitled for God to move on our behalf as a nation and, much like spoiled children, cry and complain that He does not do as we ask.

The response to God doing anything for us is to have a heart of humility and gratefulness.

 

Too many times we want to see our will be done rather than agreeing with His will. Too many times our prayers and petitions are for our own selfish interests, rather than for His plans.

 

Entitlement is raging in our streets.. agreeing with the ideas of the world has sidestepped us away from God’s plans, His agenda.

 

Repentance is needed in this hour.

 

We must ask God to forgive us of our entitled hearts, to forgive us for overlooking evil when it’s clearly in front of our eyes, to forgive us for being easily tossed within the waves of what is told us from any sources of media, and to forgive us for not being grateful for the protection God has provided us in this storm.

 

When we are met with great difficulty we need to tell our souls that God can sustain us and hold us above the raging waters. We need to not be offended that He allows these things to happen.. for He has given people free will and we are seeing the results of human free will… but He is still on His throne!

 

Walking in dark seasons does not mean God is against us.. it does, however, mean He will walk with us through it.. and we can learn by His grace to not be bothered or discouraged by such storms.

 

Everything we do have is by the grace of God. Nothing is deserved. Nothing should be expected to be ours.

 

A heart of gratitude of what we do have will carry us deeper into relationship with Him. Let us not allow our present sufferings to bring us to a place of being offended by God for allowing them, but instead seek His heart in the situation.

 

The greatest challenge for missionaries overseas is not being overcome with bitterness and anger towards the Lord when, after committing our lives to Him to serve Him, He still allows seasons of great storms to come to us.

 

A heart that believes they will be kept free from difficulty because they have done so much for God, will be sorely disappointed  because that’s not why we follow and obey Him.

 

We follow Him because we love Him and because He first loved us. To feel entitled to not have to walk through valleys as a believer is foolish. But to have a heart that understands this walk with the Lord is not about us, but about glorifying Him and making Him known, then when life becomes unsettling we will have found a resilience we never knew we had in Him.

 

For a time may come, sooner than later, when the world we live in will not want Christians in it. That time has come for so many other believers in other nations. This is not new to see ridicule of the believer. Yet, it is not a time to shrink from our faith, but to grow even bolder. That’s what persecution can do for the church, make her unstoppable. But first we need to move past our immature thinking and behavior.

 

We are more than believers of Jesus Christ, we are warriors for Him. And warriors learn how to fight and not complain about the battles. It is time we grow in our maturity of faith in the Lord. Be strong.. have courage.. and don’t be easily offended or swayed!

 

Idolatry In The Temple

An hour of judgement has come on the evil in this earth. It is time to clean out our temples which are our hearts.

 

In a dream I saw Jesus in the sky, mighty and great and the entire earth saw Him as well. Everyone ran to hide from His glory, from His presence and righteous anger. He comes as ruler, as King, as mighty in power and the whole earth fears Him as they should.

 

“Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.” Revelation 16:15

 

I’ve been feeling a strong pull towards pursuing holiness and purity like never before. I have also felt an hour of judgement upon us like never before as well. The Lord continues to highlight this judgement on the evil in our land each time I go to spend time with Him. And each time His voice grows louder in my spirit.

 

He is sending out a cry for believers to come out of the world in this time, to be the church He is calling set apart for Himself. But also to protect us from this hour of judgement.

 

“Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.” Revelation 18:4b-5

 

When I was reading in Ezekiel yesterday morning the Lord spoke to me through these verses found in chapter 8. He said the judgement is on an evil that is behind closed doors.. and we will be made aware of it in time.  He called Ezekiel to look into a hole and dig in the wall in order to discover sins he knew not of being done behind walls.

 

“Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall. He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there. And he said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.” 

 Ezekiel 8:7-9

 

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“He said to me, ‘Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

Ezekiel 8:12

 

But the Lord has seen and knows. Nothing is hidden from His sight. The Lord also used these same verses to bring to light the need for the church to search the depths of their own hearts for hidden sins.

 

Each elder was sinning before their own idol.

 

What idols are we holding in our own hearts that we commit sin before?

 

Have we allowed the Lord to dig deep into our hearts to discover these idols?

 

This hour of judgement is not meant for the church. However, if we are caught unaware in our own sin and refuse to be made clean we can easily fall under what was not meant for His own.

 

This sounds terrible, I know, and I would never share a word like this if the Lord had not pressed on my heart about this season as much as He has for the last couple of months.

 

My prayer is that we choose this day to pursue Him, to pursue a heart of purity and holiness. To choose to be set apart from the wicked ways of this world and to be His and His alone.

 

Be clothed in purity and holiness, let it adorn you and seek to understand what that means.

 

In seasons where it grows dark, those with His light shine brightly. Be the light He has made you to be in this hour… and be set apart.

Watchmen Are Being Called

I had a horrible dream last night. In the dream I was heading to bed and for some reason was careful to get into bed without having any of the lights on. I did not want anyone outside to know I was inside. Then I heard screams.. terrible screams from right next door to me. I sat up startled and thoughts raced in my head. The first thought was.. “oh no, they are close and coming”.. the second thought immediately after that was, “my sister and her family are right next door”.. and I was alarmed for my sister. I got up still afraid but ready to go help my sister and her family. Then I woke up.

 

When I woke up I continued to feel the urgency in my spirit to get up and help my sister and her family. I felt frightened still even though I was safe. I began to pray for the family I dreamed about and I loosed angels from Heaven to go and protect that family from harm. While I was praying I literally felt something pressing on my chest. When I finished praying it lifted off me and I immediately knew it was the hand of the Lord! I’ve never felt that before in my prayer times as I felt that last night. I knew a family was in trouble somewhere and I knew my prayers were being heard and responded to.

 

Church.. God is calling us to be His Watchmen for one another!!

 

I have no idea where the cry for help came from.. whether here or abroad.. I know it was the repercussions of all that is happening in this hour… and I know that it was my sister.. my sister in Christ, your sister and brother in Christ. We are to intercede and stand in the gap for one another. We are to be alert in this hour. God is calling out for His church to stand and pray… and there are literal lives caught in the crossfires that are crying out for help as well.

 

I encourage you to listen to His prompting to pray, to wake up in the night and obediently intercede for the helpless and hurting.

 

“Son of man, I have made you a watchmen for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.” Ezekiel 3:17

 

The Church is supposed to be Christ to the world… not caught tangled in politics.. or divisiveness..or arguments that are fed by the enemy.. or any of the ways of this world. Those are just distractions of the enemy to keep you from your role in this End Time hour.

 

We are to be set apart.. and to be His mouth… not our own. There is no more room to be a mouth for the things of this world.. it’s tiring and exhausting and deceptive.

 

“But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says.” Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.”

Ezekiel 3:27

 

He is calling Watchmen in this Hour!

 

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