Month: July 2023

Did you know you have a sound and that you hear sounds? The sound inside of you is either attracted to or repelled by the sounds around you. Not every group, not every church, not every person or group of people will have a sound that resonates with you. We say it is personality, but it is actually sound. This is not about tone, but about sound, the sound of people’s hearts is heard by us whether we recognize it or not. The more we know the sounds of God, the more we will recognize sounds that are contrary to God.

Hebrews 5:12-14 says, “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.”

Religion has a sound, the world has a sound, the kingdom of God has a sound. They are not the same sound and whatever sound you are most familiar with will be the sound you resonate with and are attracted to. You will not resonate with every sound, that is why people struggle to worship, because they are not aquatinted with the sound of worship, real worship, not just singing songs. Unintentionally we repel against the sound of worship, because we are tuned to another sound. Some people are attuned to the sounds of the world, so they resonate with those sounds.

Genesis 3:8 says, “They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.” We can hear the sound of God but move away from it, because we have been tuned to another sound. My friends, I see the tuning fork of God and the Lord is wanting to tune us to His sound, so we don’t push away the sound that can help us because we have become so familiar with an alternative sound. Let the Lord tune you to His sound again, you were made to resonate with His sound!

The wisdom of Solomon is so practical and identifiable that the truth in the Proverbs literally becomes like a plumbline that drops in our soul and reveals to us if we are aligned correctly or if we need an adjustment.

I am thankful for an apostolic leader in Dustin Smith who invited us as a church to read a Proverb a day, for the month of July, for it is like a chiropractic adjustment daily. There are some days you smile and think, thank you Lord that you have aligned me with your word, then their are other days, where if we are honest, we are out of alignment and we can feel it, see it and know it. When you are out of alignment a decision needs to be made, do I justify it as though that applies to someone else but not me, or do I lay on the bench and let the Word of God adjust me?

Solomon speaks so clearly and reading a different translation really opens up understanding to that which we did not see because of only reading one translation. I am an NASB girl when it comes to my Bible, but I sensed the Lord wanted me to read the Proverbs with our church in The Voice Translation. It has brought insight in ways I had not seen before. Today, when reading Proverbs 29:23, it revealed the reality of what humility looks like. I had never seen humility like this before. Listen to what the verse says, “A person’s pride brings him down, but one of humble spirit has a firm hold on honor and respect.”

Humility looks like honor and respect. Now that is measurable, that is attainable, that is easily identifiable. Humble people are honorable people and respectful people. Not just of those in authority, but of everyone. Not just when its comfortable or they deserve it, but all the time. If we are humble, we are honorable and respectful. Wow, you can’t escape this truth when it is so plain, so practical, so clear. Now the question we have to ask ourselves is, am I a person of honor and respect of all people? The answer to this question will determine whether you are plumb or need an adjustment. The Word of God is our plumbline.

Psalm 24 says, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of and all who dwell in it.” Genesis 1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” We know when Jesus descended into hell He took back the keys of authority over the earth that Adam gave up in the garden. We also know that Satan is a defeated foe, who has been stripped of his authority to rule. The question remains then, why do we live as though Yahweh, is not the ruler of the earth? Why do we not live as overcomers, when Jesus said in John 16, in this world you will have trouble, but take heart I overcame the world? My friends, we are the rightful heirs of the earth along with Jesus. Psalm 2 says, “Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance.” Jesus asked the Father for the nations and the Father gave Him the nations, the earth is the Lord’s and all who dwell in it.

The reason this all matters is because the church has been on the defense for so many years and it is a new day and there is a new way. God is inviting us to be mature sons and daughters, who are not entangled in sin, who are not moved by the many voices that scream and clamor for our attention. The Lord is wanting His church to grow up, stand up, and advance righteousness and justice in the earth realm. The days of waiting to be raptured out of here, the days of waiting to die and go to heaven are over, Jesus did not die for us, descend into hell and rise from the dead so we could just hang on til Jesus returns. He made us more than conquerors – Romans 8. My friends, living the life of an overcomer is so much more fun than living a defeated life.

I want to encourage you that training centers are manifesting to mature the body of Christ to be inside strong. The enemies days are on their final leg, we are entering into a time of rebuilding ruined cities and we are about to see a harvest of cities of the likes we have never seen before. The gavel of God has struck the valley of decision and now we will see righteousness exalting our nation and justice rolling down like waters. The tide has turned, the hearts of people are hungry for truth, and Jesus is being lifted high. My friends, are best days are upon us. Rejoice.

Last night we were invited to join some framily for the Elevation Worship Night/Pop Up Church. I went thinking this is going to be a concert environment, we are going to sing, dance, laugh and have a great time. All of which we did. However, what I did not expect was for that arena to become a bona fide sanctuary. My experience in very large settings like that is worship gets dumbed down to songs we sing, but last night was not a song fest, it was a worship experience. The presence of God was palatable in the place. We prayed, we prophesied, we proclaimed a line drawn in the sand so the enemy cannot come into our city. My God today, it was powerful.

My long time friend Kuda Chimanya and I talked about how powerful it was and we have been in some very powerful services together. The people behind us, the generations around us, everyone near us could sense the presence of God. It was truly palatable at least in section 103 it was. This was so encouaraging to me, because the bigger things get the more watered down they tend to become, but we are in a new day. Hungry hearts, authentic worship leaders and multigenerational worshippers create an environment that lifts up the name of Jesus and He truly by His Holy Spirit draws near.

Oh there was a great time had by all and Elevation Church put on a great show, but what impressed me was the presence of God that was there in that place. My friends, there is. a shift that has happened in the hearts of God’s people, it has been a behind the scenes underground work and it is starting to manifest above ground.

In worship last night I saw a lid on our city, and I prayed the Lord would lift the lid, moments later the heavens were open and I knew the lid had been lifted. What God is doing in the earth is not just for one city, one church, one nation, it is an earth wide move of God of the likes we have never seen or heard before. Drop your ideas of what you think it will look like or where it will happen, for truly anything is possible and we can’t stay silent any longer.

When the Lord will not change the subject, it is important that we don’t either. Understanding the subject comes from listening, learning and the leading of the Holy Spirit, but God is not just a talker, He wants action as well. That is why God said to the prophet Isaiah about the people of Israel, they have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear. We read our bible, we hear the voice of God, but if we don’t do what it says, it was nice words, but there are no actions. In the New Testament the apostle James says the same thing, but he uses the analogy of looking at your face in the mirror then going away and forgetting what you look like. It is a whole Bible subject and we must become people who do what the word says.

Now with that said, the Lord is not changing the subject about Babylon and its fall that is fast approaching. It may have already started, but the when it falls it will shake all that can be shaken. So what is Babylon? Babylon is a mystery it says in Revelation 17. The mystery is multfaceted, it is a system of control and those who are the leaders of it, we do not know their names. It is an oppressor of people, the Assyrians and the Babylonians in scripture carry similar attributes to the mystery Babylon system. There is much to it, but it starts in Genesis 11 with a first mention and is spoken of through the whole Bible where it has its final mention in Revelation 18.

I was reading Jeremiah 51 the other day and at the end of the chapter it says, “So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” The Lord said to me, take Jeremiah 51, tie it to a stone and throw it in the Cumberland River in TN and make the decree as stated there. So I did, this morning. I am not one who “feels” things when I am obeying what God said to do, but I felt this one in my guts. God is done with the Babylonian system it is not going to rise again, per the words of Jeremiah. Bye Bye Babylon!

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God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, says David in Psalm 50, which is my prayer partner this morning. But what exactly does that phrase mean? I have some very good friends who have a God dream to help children and they want to name their land, land of a thousand hills and their desire is to have 1000 heads of cattle. My friends are country folk and I love them for it. Last month I went to a worship night at a coffee shop in Nashville and the name of the place was Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. We bought our friends the coffee cup to prophesy to them their dream. Then the other day we went to the Amish community here in TN and we went past Thousand Hills Cowboy Church. Now this morning I am praying Psalm 50 and it speaks of the cattle on a thousand hills. Three times, this phrase has come up in less than a month, okay Lord, what are you saying?

In the context of Psalm 50, I am in awe and wonder as David begins the Psalm by saying, “The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The God I serve has the authority to summon the whole earth, all of creation, He can put out the call and every created thing, must come and gather before Him. There is no other God with that kind of authority, oh the wonder of our God. “He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people” (Ps. 50:4). He gathers us all together to judge us, not to condemn us but to course correct us, because we are out of alignment.

His summons is to speak truth to us, we are performing for him with our sacrifices and He is wanting our hearts, our gratitude, not our performance or our sacrifices. It is a time of course correction. The Lord has always been after our hearts not our offerings. He wants us to love Him with our hearts and we so easily slip into performing for Him, but we are His children and He delights in us. So, when He says He owns a cattle on a thousand hills that is not a prosperity scripture, it is a reminder, he doesn’t need our offerings, our sacrifices, our performance, He wants our hearts of gratitude, our love, our affection, my friends, He is taking us back to the heart of worship which is our love for Him and His love for us. This judgment makes us feel so much better, when we realize He wants us and He wants us to want Him!