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August is here and I am really excited! Prophetically, it is the 8th month and 8 represents new beginnings. Quite often, we will see the start of new things in August. As this happens, expect to see the old things die away. I have had heavenly encounters all month involving promotions and commissioning of new plans to continue to prepare us for this next powerful move of God that is coming. The word I am hearing from God for August is the pain of change. Embracing changes will help you to transition from the old to the new. I had an encounter last Sunday and a strong presence of the Lord came into my room.
God raises up His agents of change through the fire. They must walk through the fire first before they can come out to help lead others through. And when it's time, God will bring them to the forefront to do what He has called, chosen, and/or commissioned them to do. This is what's happening now on many levels. The more intimately I come to know Him, the more I come to see and understand His ways are truly nothing like our own. They are much, much higher. This is why He often calls us to spiritually come up higher because it helps us to see and understand things from His perspective.
"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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
"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.
