Month: April 2023

I had a dream last week and in the dream, someone had a shofar, but it was circular in shape and they were blowing it but no noise was coming out of it. The person looked at me and said, why is it not releasing any sound? I began to explain to them how to blow the shofar, but they still could not get a sound to come out of it. I then took the shofar from them and looked into the mouthpiece and I saw that there was a piece of bone that was hindering the release of the sound. I explained to the person what the issue was and said, you need to remove the bone in the mouthpiece if you want to release its sound. End of dream.

I woke up with the thought that the circular shofar was a French horn, so I contacted a couple friends about the dream and both said it was related to battle and the French. I have been sitting on this dream for nothing felt like it was clicking as to what the dream was about. Then I was watching a show called Iron Chef and the man did a Medieval themed cooking and he blew a bugle, that was circular and the Lord said, that is the instrument in your dream.

This morning, the Lord reminded me of the dream, the bugle and so I began to study the bugle. “A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship. Historically, bugles, drums, and other loud musical instruments were used for clear communication in the noise and confusion of a battlefield.” (wikipedia) The history of the bugle goes back to a French word cor bugler which means horn of an animal. Henceforth the shofar and being circular.

I send all this to a friend this morning and she shoots a message back saying, 1 Corinthians 14:8 “For example, if a bugle doesn’t sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?” Now all the pieces are together. The Lord is wanting us to sound a clear call to the nations for we are in a spiritual war, but the mouthpieces are being hindered and cannot release the sound. The Lord is removing the “bones” that are hindering our breath from blowing the shofar, releasing the clear call to battle and cutting through all the noise and confusion on the battlefield.

My friends, the war is real, it is active and it is noisy, but God is releasing a sound that is cutting through so people can hear the call to pray, to sing, to shout, to declare the enemy has been defeated. I don’t know what “bone” is hindering your sound, but it is time to remove all obstacles and hinderances to the releasing of your sound for we are in a war and the bugle must sound the alarm so the army knows what is being said in the midst of this battlefield.

The shofar is the voice of God that speaks in our battles and when He does it brings peace in the midst of confusion. Can you hear the voice of God calling out right now, with His voice comes peace even as the war is raging. The hinderance has been removed and now the sound will be clearly heard.

The Church calls this week, “Holy Week” and they call the night Jesus was crucified, “Good Friday”, therefore, every year it has to be on a Friday that we celebrate “Good Friday” and it has to be a Sunday when we celebrate “Resurrection Day”. This is how the Gentiles celebrate “Holy Week”.

The Jewish people follow a Hebrew, not Gregorian calendar and they celebrate Passover on the the 14th of Abib, which this year is today, April 5, 2023. It is never celebrated on the same day of the week, but it is always celebrated on the same day of the Hebrew month. The Jews call this week, starting today, “The Feast of Unleavened Bread”, during this feast week, they celebrate the Passover and they do not eat anything leavened for one week.

On this day, in which the true Passover Lamb was killed per the Lord’s instructions to Moses in Exodus 12, we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ, who was and forever will be the Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world, once and for all, so there is no longer a need for an animal (lamb) to be sacrificed for our sins. Hebrews 6:1 says, “Having put away once for all the beginning word of the Messiah (the first testament in animal blood, i.e., the Mosaic economy), let us be carried along to that which is complete (the New Testament in Jesus’ blood).”

Today we put the blood of Jesus over the doorposts of our life by taking communion, remembering what Jesus did for us and giving thanks that we have a Passover Lamb that we get to celebrate everyday of the year, whether its the 14th of Abib with the Jews, Good Friday with the church or every Sunday with or church community. Let the Feast of the Lord begin!

Things can be hidden for only so long, because some changes manifest in a way that is noticeable and people start to see the changes that were done in private, for now they have become public. For you that know me, you can tell I have been making physical changes to my body. I have lost over 50 pounds since January 1, 2023, and I have had some other major changes happen physically as well, all for the good. I am so thankful for the people in my life here in Tennessee for they are life speakers and they have watered this desert so now it blooms with flowers that produce a fragrance for others to enjoy.

God has a way of using physical changes to reach deep into places we did not know were buried inside of us. When you get married you learn things about yourself you did not know; when you have children you definitely see things in yourself you didn’t know, like how selfish you really are. The same is true with losing weight. People celebrate the loss, they compliment you on how good you look, but what I didn’t know is I was using food to numb an ache. Now that food is not there to be my anesthesia, I have an ache, that is connected to a dream, that I cannot deny and I choose not to numb any longer.

I have come to realize this ache is a God planted dream inside of me that I have no way of making happen in my own strength, so I have to acknowledge the ache. I believe everyone of us has a God given ache inside of us, it is a dream God put in us and it aches because we can’t fulfill it in our own strength. I do not believe God gave this too us to torment us, but He gave it to us to fulfill it in us. He is a Father, He loves us, and He knows who we were created to be.

I want to give you permission to see the ache, hear the ache, stop numbing the ache or acting like it doesn’t exist. I realize some aches can’t be fulfilled without “x” number of money; others can’t be fulfilled until “x” comes into your life; still others the ache can’t be fulfilled apart from God intervention, literally. I know the ache, I finally feel it, see it, and am shedding tears and praying prayers about it. It is not the thorn in your flesh, it is the dream of your heart that is why it aches and I finally am feeling it pulsate inside of me and it is a deep well that I have not felt before, but I feel it now.

My friends, I see now how we use food, drugs, sex, alcohol, religion, pornography, you name it to numb the ache, but it doesn’t go away. People can’t fulfill it, only God can, it is not there to punish us, it is there to remind us, we are called to “Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it.” (Psalm 37:4-5) The enemy wants us to believe God is taunting us, so we pull away from the Lord, but even with an ache, we draw near, for we know the nature, character and heart of our God, He is good, He is faithful, He is a promise keeper, He cannot lie. Draw near, ache and all, He gave it to you, so He is going to fulfill it, in due time! The ache is the dream!

Have you ever been walking in the woods and you started on a path, but lost it and then had to try and find it again? Do you remember that feeling of slight panic, like oh my goodness, I am not sure where I am going? It is not fun to get lost in the woods, but if you relocate the path, the adventure of being on a path in the woods is quite fun. As long as you stay on the path, you can enjoy the scenery, experience the sounds of creation, and the smells of the trees and flowers.

Life is a lot like walking through the forest, there is a path through every season of our soul personally, communally and nationally, but if we lose sight of the path it can be nerve wracking. If we panic when we lose our path or can’t see our path, we do things out of panic and it takes us even more off course. The nations are going through some challenges right now and many cannot see the path. The media is saying the path is this way, our feelings are saying the path is that way, culture is saying no the path is over here, but there is another voice speaking, showing us the path.

Isaiah 55:9, 11 says, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts. …My word which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” The path of the Lord is higher than the path of the earth, it has charted a course for us to follow, but so often like Israel of old, “We are being led astray in our hearts. And we do not have experiential knowledge of God’s paths” (Hebrews 3:10).

The Lord is inviting us to lift up our eyes to the hills for that is where our help comes from (Psalm 121). There are a lot of trees in this forest, there are a lot of voices clamoring for our attention, it can cause us to be double minded, unstable and even nervous, for we do not seem to see the path through this. But remember, “You will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way. Follow it, whether it turns to the right or to the left” (Isaiah 30:21). My friends, you can hear the voice of God, so there is nothing to fear, all you have to do is follow Him and His voice! He will lead you out of what He lead you into. The best is yet to come!

One of the greatest challenges of humanity is when we see injustice. When one person gets treated a certain way based on status, title, or bank account it causes frustration in those that don’t carry the same privileges. It may not be a spoken injustice or frustration with the injustice seen or heard, but it is legit inside of people and it stirs in them as more and more injustices are seen or heard. It’s at crockpot level but the frustrations are still cooking inside of people. This is not new to humanity and one of the Psalmist actually penned a similar challenge that he was facing.

Psalm 73 “This is what the wicked are like—
always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
and have washed my hands in innocence.
All day long I have been afflicted,
and every morning brings new punishments.
If I had spoken out like that,
I would have betrayed your children.
When I tried to understand all this,
it troubled me deeply
till I entered the sanctuary of God;
then I understood their final destiny.”

As believers enter the sanctuary of God today May we remember that Yahweh is the judge of everyone. Nothing escapes His notice. Those that think they’re getting away with something are not getting away with it. Just because justice delays does not mean it’s denied but this can only be seen when you enter the sanctuary of God. Our job is not to wish condemnation upon anyone but to remember that if we too had not met Jesus the Christ who paid the penalty for all of our sins we would have a final destination just like the wicked do.

As you enter the sanctuary of God today, May you remember how much you’ve been forgiven so when those that were once wicked turn and become righteous we do not treat them as though they don’t belong in the house of God. He who has been forgiven much loves much! Our job is to love God and love people, but that only happens inside of us when we enter the sanctuary of God.

Watch April! This is what the Lord said in August 2022, now we have entered April and we have entered it with some activity. Just after midnight here in the Tennessee area the tornadic activity was palatable for those who heard the sirens going off, felt the wind blowing, and were talking to one another on social media. However, in the words of the newscaster that @marcellamitchell was watching at 1am, it looked like a tornado was going to touchdown in the Spring Hill, Columbia, TN area, then the lady said, “Well, it’s dissipating!” Marcella said, she said this right when it was going over Columbia, TN. It took up again but never landed in our area.

I woke up this morning to messages from friends who were awake, asking if I heard the sirens, was I awake, all the questions as we take care of each other here, but me, I slept through the whole thing. I got up to walk the dogs this morning and there was no sign of any storm, not even rain on the ground, so I was like what storm, what sirens? But the fact that it happened within an hour of April 1st beginning, I knew it was a Watch April moment to remember.

The other thing about to today is that the alphabet community was planning a “Trans Day of Vengeance” rally in DC for today, but this rally has been canceled due to the school shooting in Nashville that happened at Covenant School. Watch April! What is being planned is being cancelled, this is not coincidental, this is important for us to Watch April.

We have entered the month in which Palm Sunday is the 2nd; Passover is on the 5th; Good Friday is on the 7th; Resurrection Day/Easter is on the 9th; just to name a few holidays in which the nations will be celebrating, remembering and enjoying Jesus the Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, Yahweh the Almighty. Watch April my friends, I have a sense we are going to see a lot of God activity starting this month.