This morning as I sat worshiping in the Lord's presence, once again I began hearing those two words spoken to me, "strategies revealed." With such a sense of expectancy I sat before the Lord and invited Him to speak to me whatever it was He wanted me to know. Although my initial expectation was for personal direction, He went larger than that, and I received a word, not merely for my own household, rather, for His household.
All persecution, including slander, comes with the purpose of causing you to withdraw from your position. We don't believe in withdrawal or retreat. We only have charges. NO retreat allowed! Remember you are neither the first nor the last to be persecuted, just the next one. You are in good company.
"Although the increase of the last season is beautiful to behold, take joy in offering up what you have been entrusted to steward. If you are willing to offer what is in your hands, then I can begin a new creative process within you. Bruising and crushing may appear to create great loss, but as you offer up your best to Me I am able to release a new flow of My Anointing. Let Me introduce My leaven to your offering so what emerges is far beyond your natural abilities."
In today's update and in the next, I want to discuss the thorny issue of hearing the voice of Jesus. First, I grew up in a movement where it was common for people to say, "The Lord told me this," and "God showed me that." They said it so confidently, with such assurance, projecting the image that God talked to them as unmistakably as when a solicitor calls you on the phone. Interestingly, whenever I've said to such people, "We really need a practical book that shows people how to practically recognize the Lord's voice," they became animated saying something like, "Oh, I really want to read a book like that!"
Yesterday evening, I kept hearing two words spoken over and over into my spirit; "strategies revealed." I began to feel a stirring within me, as if the Lord wanted to disclose His upcoming for some things my husband and I have been seeking Him about.
If you obey God, persecution, offense and slander wars will come. Jesus said they would, especially during the last days of this dispensation. Expect that everything you stand for will be tested. How real are your convictions?
"If you want to go to a new level prophetically, there is a whole new birthing of the prophetic anointing and of My prophetic mantle. A new mantle of the prophetic is forming and being imparted. I am redefining the prophetic gift that flows from heaven through this Divine connection to you. You're not just going to come and dip your prophetic torch, but you will become a fire that will not go out! You will be a fire starter! The torch of revelation that I am bringing to and through you, will 'fire' many. You have been laboring in the prophetic vineyard, but now is the time to start producing prophetic wine."
Everything in the universe began with God and it continues only through Christ. Last time I emphasized that 'we' are not the indispensable component for understanding what exists, how it is to be understood, or for what should take place. The Creator and Sustainer of all is where life originates and the only place absolute truth can ever be found. This means that if we truly are a believer in Christ, He is forever our "truth" (John 14:6). To truthfully represent Him, we must always begin with God in the Spirit, living with Him according to His design (John 4:23-24). This is the plan of the Lord for coming into His eternal purpose, to take hold of His call upon us, and to see all we are and do merge into His destiny for the Church (Philippians 3:11; Ephesians 3:11-12).
I heard the Spirit saying, "Now is the time to shed the skin of false identity and put on your true identity." It is time to allow the Lord to help you shake off any false identity that you have been wrapped in, clothing you in misrepresentation of who God created you to be. You have been fashioned in His image and the Holy Spirit lives within you; He is there to do great and mighty things through your life. His Spirit reveals the love of the Father to you, reveals truth to you, and empowers you to resist the devil and his lies.
Fearless warriors you shall be. Yes, I will call you fearless because you loved not your life unto death. You died out to your own will and ways and chose Mine that are much higher than your own. You chose to die out allowing My resurrection power to flow through you enabling you to do great exploits. Yes, this is the day of the great falling away but it is also the day where My bride is making herself ready with Me in her secret place that I made for her alone. Yes, each and every one of My beloved lambs have a special place I have created in My heart for them to dwell and within your very heart I have that place set up.
We are living in a time of shifting, shaking and experiencing many changes in the world as well as our personal lives, but for the believers it is going to be a glorious time of demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit just as they had experienced in the book of Acts. The Lord wants to use every one of us in extraordinary ways not in word only, but in manifestation of His power with healing, miracles, signs and wonders. These signs will follow those who believe: In Jesus name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
Here is a passage in 2 Chronicles that is such a clear picture of the heart of God concerning His primary goal concerning "His house." This has a 3-way meaning and application. The house of God is a picture, type and shadow of the way things should look. Firstly the application begins with our personal lives, as we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Next it has meaning for our corporate gathering together in worship to God. Then there is a reality of how God tangibly and even visibly fills even a physical building, something He still does today!
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