Through My Eyes

I heard very clearly this morning;

“My waves and billows are crashing over you this morning. I am coming to overtake that which is overtaking you!”

God is responding to prayers! Our Lion is on the move, and He is coming to overtake the enemy, the idols and the distractions in your life. He is coming to help you de-clutter your spiritual life and overtake it. Position yourself, as one would position themselves to prepare for a large wave. Because He is coming and His waves and billows will wash over us.

Will you ride the wave and let it wash you to shore or will you fight it, dig in your heels and hold your ground?

The wave is coming!

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23

Elpis:
Origin- Greek; from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure)
Meaning – joyful and confident expectation
English Translation – Hope

In Hebrews 10:23 the word Hope, is Elpis. Let us hold fast the confession of our joyful and confident expectation, without wavering!

Now, if you have been following my blog I have spoken on Hope multiple times. I have grounded myself in Hope. BUT Hebews 11:1 says;

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

That word hope there is, elpizomenōn, that is “to expect”. Now if Faith is the substance of things Expected, and we are called to have a confident expectation without wavering, then maybe we got Hope all wrong.

What are we expecting to happen? Many of us are waiting on promises to be fulfilled, but are we expecting those promises to be fulfilled? Are we expecting a miracle or is it something we would just like to have happen. I tell you that doubt will steal your hope! Doubt will try to come in and tell you things are not going to work, your healing won’t come and your miracle won’t happen. I tell you, you will get what you expect to happen! If you expect healing, it will come. If you expect a miracle, it will come! If you expect nothing, you will get just that. We need to start expecting, so that our faith can attach to true hope and rise to the heavens and release miracles.

After the wedding, when all the glitz has settled and the honeymoon ends, it’s time to go home. The day to day starts, as husband and wife. The dating scene is over and the hustle and bustle of preparing for your wedding is over. Now it’s time to begin the new “norm”. What does that look like? What does it look like walking out this life as husband and wife? What does it look like walking this out with eternity in mind?

When the groom takes the bride’s hand and says “Let’s go home”, it’s a home together, not alone. There has been a season of dessert, but I tell you I hear the sound of rain. It has been a dry season and many of us have not known what the new “normal” looks like after choosing to follow our Beloved Jesus. I tell you that the rain of His love is about to pour out. Seek Him with all your heart!

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. – Jeremiah 28:13

This is God’s promise to His children. We WILL find Him!

At the beginning of this year there was a prophecy – that this was a sweet 16 for us, as Christians. I tell you the best part of the party is at the end, cake and presents! We have mingled and laughed and shared with each other, but the presents are about to be opened and the release is coming from heaven. I see gifts, spiritual gifts being handed out from Heaven. This is a love gift from the bridegroom to His bride! From the Father to His child on their birthday. As parents we always give the greatest gift at the birthday party, to our child.

Enter into a position to receive! The rain is coming, and the drought is about to end, can you smell the rain in the air? Do you see the small cloud in the sky? The rain is coming! The gifts are being released, we just need to get into the position to receive. You can’t open presents if you didn’t attend your own party, you can’t open gifts if you are too busy outside and not listening to what is going on. Soon the party will be over and the time to open them will be over.

“No Prayer, No Prosperity” is a phrase I heard Benny Hinn say. As I listened to to him preach I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me in conjunction with the words being said.

When we pray we are inviting Heaven to invade our atmosphere. We are telling Heaven and Angels and The Holy Ghost and GOD to come and be a part of our day and to guide us in His plan for us.

There have been some major wild fires taking place in the U.S. I believe this is the rocks crying out in what God wants to do. You see prayer is a match. With that match you can light a candle, a torch, a fireplace, a campfire or a bonfire. But you get to choose which one. It can be a light that dimly guides, a burning torch that guides you out and others to you, a campfire to keep warm by or even a bonfire to be a beacon to those who are lost.

You get to choose.

But prayer, coupled with fasting, will RELEASE the wildfire of Heaven! I know many are seeking guidance in jobs, finance, family, friends and maybe just for more of God. I am telling you, this is the time to fast and pray and watch as the Holy Ghost Wildfire reaches out and consumes you.

When you think of mercy, you think of a man/woman begging for mercy at the feet of a King, Judge or person of authority. But what if, instead, we think of mercy as already forgiven. Not something we need to beg for, but something that was given as a gift.

I can’t get the thought of the cross and the walk that Jesus took from my mind today. How His Blood, is on my hands. How it was for my sins He was beaten, beyond recognition. He took the pain, the shame and my sentence, because He loves me. How then, can I live any other way then entirely for Him? How dare I sqander that which He gave freely. Before the sentence could take place, before I could even stand before The Judge and be tried for that which I was guilty of, He showed MERCY! He jumped the line and said “NO” and took my punishment for me.

By His Stripes

But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

How can I live the same after knowing that He paid the price of death for me. Knowing that I am healed by His Stripes, I am set free because of what He did. How could I live the same after what He did for me? For us?

Several days ago I posted on facebook;

New Wind

“Do you smell it? Like a fall breeze that carries the autumn leaves filled with the smell of the tree they fell from, the New Wind is coming. Are you ready for what is to come? Do you smell the New Wind?”

This morning, as I was preparing for my day, I heard “The Nest is empty”. This statement was followed very promptly with “There is Bread in Bethlehem”. These statements took me to the book of Ruth. Naomi had an empty nest, her husband and sons had passed. Her daughter in law Orpah had returned to Moab, but Ruth clung to her! “May your God be my God” she said.

They arrived in Bethlehem and Ruth went to glean barley in the fields after the reapers. There in the fields Boaz met her, saying “You will listen, my daughter, will you not? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close by my young women. Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young mean not to tough you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.” (Ruth 2:8&9)

I believe we have reached a point where we need to follow the instruction that Boaz gave Ruth. Do not go to glean in another field! Do not turn away and look for comfort, supply, provision or anything else from any other field then that of Our Lord! Do not let your eyes be set upon a field that may appear to have more. Be patient, because the bundles that are full will pass by and will intentionally drop more for you! What you see now is not what you will receive, your double portion is coming! Prepare yourself, glean in the fields that lord has given you.

God bless!

So, I am sure by the post you are wondering what I am talking about. We all handle traumatic events differently. Some will look inward, some will look outward and others will look toward heaven. All of this will send us looking for help, the kind of help that encourages us to move forward and not stay stagnant. The kind of help that helps us process the encounter and not let it hold us back from what the future may hold.

I bring this subject up, because of what I am currently dealing with. I will be honest, I am coping with trauma. I had an encounter with a small dog, and was bitten roughly 6 or 7 times. Because of it, I am looking inward on how I could have prevented it from happening and also toward heaven to see that I learn what I need to out of this.

The dog that bit me I was trying to help, as he had escaped his collar and was heading toward the front door of a store and toward traffic. As he had closed the distance to the door by half, his mom had not made any luck in getting his attention and he was set n leaving (with or without her). So I sped up and grabbed him at the waist. Now most dogs would panic, they would not normally become the fearful aggressive animal he became.

As he continued to bite and recoil and bite again, he also pooped, peed and released his anal glands, all over my shirt. As I scruffed him and lowered him to the ground he took a heavy bite on my finger, which had me react by grabbing his mouth and clamping it closed. The parent was there, telling the dog it was ok, but not trying to stop him from putting those sharp teeth to work on my flesh. Ultimately she was enabling his behavior.

So, my adrenaline through the roof, my boss began to clean my wounds and I left for the day. I spent the evening reviewing the event in my mind. Could I have done something differently?

As I revisited the event, I heard the Lord speak to me about it. “This is how my children act.” I heard Him speak so clearly, but in a timeless way, that it was all there before I could realize it. “When I am saving them from death and danger, they turn on me and attack. Thinking I am trying to restrain them and stop them from having fun, when really I am trying to help them see who they really are, how amazing they really are.”

To think about the pain in my hands, how they hurt and ache. How the swelling has limited my movement and how I prayed that I would not become fearful from the trauma but just more aware. I realized that Jesus hands were pierced for us, because we kept turning on God. Yet, with the pierced and bleeding hands, He still reaches for us. Helping turn us and direct us. Not once is He flinching from us, in the chance that we might turn and bite. He is trusting that we will turn and love Him.

I know, that with my calling I have much to learn and glean. But I also know that when God has me endure something, there is a greater reason. Just as Hosea had to marry a prostitute so that He could know how God felt. I know I endured this pain, so that I could truly understand what the Church has done to her bridegroom. Like a crazed dog, stubborn and set in its ways, we are turning and biting back from the direction and safety that God is offering. Instead of turning with love into the arms of safety we are snarling and gnashing our teeth, biting the hands that are offering us safety.

From Sunday service on October 23.
“Praise is Key”
The valley may seem deep, but the praise you lift from the valley will be the very key to unlock that which is holding you back. The praise lifted from the valley will be the echo heard from the mountain top.

Praise is the key to so much. It was the key to release the sound that brought down the walls of Jericho. It was the sound that preceded the victory. It is in our praise that we release into the atmosphere the welcoming of the Holy Spirit and the Lord. When we have the chance to come into rhythm with the heartbeat of God.

From Sunday service on October 16th.
“Altar of the Lord”
What are you building your altar from?

In Joshua, the altar to the Lord was built from the stones of where they had been. So when God asked me, what are you building your Altar from? I began to look at where I had been and what I had been using to build my altar.

I noticed I was building altars out of things that were not worthy of the Lord. Things that created conflict and tension or convictions of the heart. But as I searched what I was doing I watched as God showed me when my altar was worthy of the sacrifice. The times when I made an altar of my time, and gave sacrifices of praise, devotion and prayer. The things we think are the smallest are, at times, the biggest to God.

“So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”

Isaiah 59:19

I had the pleasure of painting at church today during first service. I arrived feeling as though there was a fog in the spirit. Like something that needed to be lifted. After arriving and hearing confirmation from several other people we began to pray. As worship started, God began to show me a flag being lifted. After I was done painting, I wrote down the word that I heard God speak so clearly.

“When you don’t see the storm, I will raise up a standard!
Before the enemy comes in, I will raise up a standard of Victory!
At the rising of my standard, the sound of Victory will be released!

I am raising up a standard during a the calm, to tell you to prepare for war during a time of peace.”

As I began to read this over, God showed me Sarah Connor, from terminator. How while she was in prison, she used that time to prepare for war. How she used a time of rest, to continue her training.

The body of Christ has become complaisant during their time of rest. They have become easy going and sleepy, when they should use the time of rest to prepare. Because a war is not easy. It will take courage, it will take bravery, it will take faith! If we do not exercise these parts of our lives during peace, the muscles will be weak during the time of war!