Month: June 2021

Psalm 61:2-4 “Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For You have been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy. Let me dwell in Your tent forever; Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah.”

The Lord is calling us into a higher altitude. This new altitude will adjust our breathing, will change the rhythm of our heart, will cause us to make adjustments according to the new altitude. We as his people have wanted him to come down but we don’t wanna go up. He wants us to increase our elevation level. He wants the sea level in our lives raised. The call for him to come down is being replaced with a call for us to come up. 

He’s not going to swoop down, he wants us to rise up. In our ascending we will find new scenery, new thoughts, new perspectives, and he will adjust the cabin pressure so we can handle the new altitude. However we must send, arise, come up higher. He is leading us to the rock that is higher than us. His tent, his dwelling, is up there not down here. The call is to arise and shine, the call is to come up here. 

As we come up higher, as well ascend, we will find that the low level issues are now under our feet. We will find a view that we’ve only dreamt about but have never seen. We will find that the Lord has adjusted everything inside of us to the new elevation that he is inviting us into. It is time to come up higher!

In prayer this morning the Holy Spirit said, “Once it is dismantled it is never to be remantled.” I was so amazed by this statement I wrote it down and had to look up what dismantled means for I knew this was significant to the Lord. Here’s what dismantled means: To take apart; disassemble; tear down. To put an end to in a gradual systematic way.

God is dismantling many things in the nations and in our lives. Just as when the prophets would tear down demonic altars and Asherah poles, they were to never be remantled again. We are witnessing the cleansing of the nations by God Himself and woe is us if we try to remantle what God is dismantling.

Strongholds are coming down!

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.”

What we tolerate will dominate. This is why God destroys our enemies. What actually are the enemies God destroys and wants us to destroy? Our enemies are sins of the mouth: words, pride, curses, and lies. We have a common enemy with God and they are not to be tolerated but destroyed. The destruction of these enemies in us and around us reveals that God rules in us, through us and around us. Don’t tolerate the enemies in you or they will dominate in you and through you.

Psalm 59:12-13 “On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter. Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more; That men may know that God rules in Jacob To the ends of the earth. Selah.”

Isaiah had the same enemies “Then I said, Woe is me, for I am ruined!

Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.” (Isaiah 6:5-6). It’s a common enemy for us all and must be destroyed so God can rule in the midst of us.

James said it this way, “the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.” (James 3:5-6). And in conclusion I want to quote Toby Mac who says it so succinctly…”SPEAK LIFE!” This is how we hear the evidence of God’s rule in your life.

I was awakened early this morning hearing the words, “The church is in a worldwide pirouette.” For you that know me, I’m a boy mom, ballet terms are not common language in our house. But as I heard this I Immediately saw the feet of a ballerina, so I knew it was a ballet term. Here’s what pirouette means: a full turn of the body on the point of the toe; to turn or whirl on one leg; short graceful turns; to whirl or spin. Church the Lord is turning the whole body of Christ worldwide. The Lord has us doing a pirouette, we are turning whether someone sees it or not, the Lord said, we are in a worldwide pirouette as a church!

Get ready for the Lord is about to awaken the glory that is in you. He put it in you when He made you and now there is a call for it to awaken. Get ready my friends; get ready your glory is about to be awakened!

Psalm 57:8 “Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.”

As members of the body of Christ begin to walk in confidence we will see the removal of competition among us. We compete with each other because we are not confident in who God made us to be. Confidence removes competition and gives us the ability to complement each other rather than compete with each other. We must be confident in our God and how He made us for confidence looks good on us, but competition distorts God’s image coming through us. We’re on the same team, no need to compete with each other. Be confident and we’ll compliment each other and do great exploits.

1 John 5:14-15 “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”

The word of God is filled with prophetic timelines. Knowing which timeline we are on, and who the target audience is for that timeline is critical. When we are out of time people get disappointed because promises are made that are not in time. People get confused because people announce prophetic things that don’t come to pass and they wonder why. One of the things that maturity brings is accuracy in relation to prophetic timing. When we as the body of Christ are operating in accurate prophetic timing not just one prophet or just one voice will be speaking it there will be a cluster of prophetic voices speaking the same thing just in a little different way. It’s not about one prophet having the word of the Lord it’s about the prophetic ministry within the body of Christ communicating the mind of Christ in God’s timing.

So where are we on God’s prophetic timetable as a nation, as the nations? That is what many people are trying to understand. The prophets around the world were in alignment until the timing was not what they expected around a major issue. However that doesn’t change that the prophets were correct it’s just that the timing has not manifested that which they prophesied. But it is about to. Those prophetic voices that all came together in agreement were not wrong, it’s just that the timing is not going according to what typically happens, because we are in the greatest shift our generation has ever known. When their collective prophetic voices that communicated a truth comes to pass, the nations are going to rejoice, because the prophets in the land in our generation got it right.

When you’re entering a new era, when you’re crossing Jordan into a new land, when you’re coming out of Egypt, the old ways of earthly time tables don’t apply in the new place because the transition is so huge. We are in one of those enormous times of transition. This my dear friends is why the timing has been off but the prophetic word has been on. Be encouraged and not discouraged. All you’re seeing is smoke and mirrors of the enemy trying to convince you and convince me that he is in control of the nations and that the prophets were wrong. But in the words of some of my good friends, the devil is a liar. Or in the word of God it says, Let God be true and every man a liar. It’s been a challenging six months, it’s felt like a roller coaster with high highs and low lows, but it’s because we’ve entered a new place in the history of the world and when the dust settles the nations are going to rejoice because the prophets heard God clearly.

A decision was made yesterday to meet in Crab Orchard, TN so I could get from Sevierville, TN back to Nashville with some friends and this became the halfway point for pick up. What I thought was just a random small town off the interstate turned out to be the gateway to Nashville on which many pioneers passed. Being a gateway it is important that the gate is opened according to Psalm 24 that the King of glory might come in. I grabbed my shofar and opened this gate on a no longer used old railroad located in this ever so small town. Going through the gate into a city or region is critical because Jesus said in John 10, thief’s climb in through other ways because they are thief’s (John 10). I went through the gate yesterday into the Nashville area and now we see what God has prepared for this place. Details matter.

A decision was made yesterday to meet in Crab Orchard, TN so I could get from Sevierville, TN back to Nashville with some friends and this became the halfway point for pick up. What I thought was just a random small town off the interstate turned out to be the gateway to Nashville on which many pioneers passed. Being a gateway it is important that the gate is opened according to Psalm 24 that the King of glory might come in. I grabbed my shofar and opened this gate on a no longer used old railroad located in this ever so small town. Going through the gate into a city or region is critical because Jesus said in John 10, thief’s climb in through other ways because they are thief’s (John 10). I went through the gate yesterday into the Nashville area and now we see what God has prepared for this place. Details matter.

Isaiah 62:10 “Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples!”

I’ve yet to meet a person that does not want to be successful. People want to prosper in every area of their life. They want healthy kids, a strong marriage, financial stability, family, friends, and fun. People want God Involved in their lives, they want to hear His voice, and know His will as well as so many other things. This is why people go to conferences, counseling, church, school, trainings, because they want to succeed in life. This is how God made us, He made us to be producers, productive, and successful at what we do.

The challenge, as people, we face is we get tripped up on the road to success. We start, we’re excited, we have dreams, we see a bright future, but then the challenge comes. Challenges are par for the course, but when a challenge comes we don’t feel able to solve it, overcome it, conquer it, so many quit at the base of what I call a speed bump. You see challenges are like speed bumps they are built in the process in order to slow you down. If you speed over a speed bump you will bottom out your vehicle; cause your passengers to come out of their seat; and may cause damage to your vehicle as well as shock your passengers.

In life challenges are like speed bumps, slow down until the whole vehicle gets over the bump, gets through the challenge, but don’t stop moving. Speed bumps can be annoying if your in a hurry, but they are designed as a safety measure not a thorn in your flesh. Next time you face a marriage challenge, financial difficulty, a problem with your child or a job related issue, remember it’s only a speed bump, slow down, go over it and before you know it you’ll be cruising down the road successfully again.

James 1:2-5 “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”

When we dress self in the garments of a prince, we seek to be served rather than serve. We have promoted people to princes before they learned to be servants. We have puffed people up rather than built them up, therefore when a storm arises they quickly collapse at the first gust of wind.

We are entering a building season as the body of Christ. There are major renovations that must be done, it will be an extreme makeover. This is necessary and when it’s complete we will rejoice together at God’s handiwork. There will be those who resist, but the majority will submit to the process for the foremen and women God is going to assign to help lead have been through the process already. The renovations in their life will be noticeable as soon as God reveals them.

God is a builder not a destroyer. Wisdom builds, God is wisdom. Love builds, God is love. Grace is a builder, God is grace. We are entering a major building project and not only is it needed, most people want it. The days of puffing up and propping up are over, we are now going to see the body of Christ built up.

Ephesians 4:29 “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”