Month: November 2023

We are designed for maximum effectiveness! God made us of the highest quality material in the earth realm and He placed in us the very image of God; then deposited in us His very own Holy Spirit. We are a true treasure, a valuable creation, and a powerful manifestation of God on earth. If we truly understood who we were created, designed and equippped to be, we would be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitifude of excellence He placed inside each one of us. We were truly fashioned for significant impact.

This excellence with which we were created is exactly why we are a target of the enemy, who hates all things beautiful, despises excellence, does not agree with obedience or submission and will do whatever it takes to disfigure the image of God on earth in you. Is it any wonder he attacks you, wounds you, then mocks you. The devil is a ruthless foe, but we have the ability to overcome him.

The challenge is, we are not convinced God is for us. We are not prepared to be as loved as God wants to love us. We have been programmed to operate out of self-sufficiency; self-protection; and self-preservation; but we were designed for dependency on God and others. We were created to trust, but the enemy has perverted our design.

Our God is a Redeemer, Restorer, Deliverer, Liberator, He is on a rescue mission not just to forgive us of our sins, but to restore us to factory settings, to restore original design. However, He needs us to partner with Him in this process.

One of the tools He uses to bring us back to original design is the bit and bridle with the intent of getting us to be led by His voice. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.”

God has such a purpose for each life, He has a desire for everyone’s existence and so many are about to receive a bit and bridle, in order to restore them to original design. Others are having their bit and bridle removed for they are now led by His eye. No matter where you are in the process of restoration, God is bringing us back to original design for maximum effectiveness.

Here we are dipped in hierarchy but called to humility; steeped in sickness yet promised healing; locked up in addiction and yet declared set free. When reality does not match the promise, it can be challenging. The questions of what have I done to deserve this arise with a vengeance in our minds. The enemy mocks us saying, God doesn’t heal today; addictions are permanent; captivity is the final destination. Liar, the devil is a liar.

Friends, humility is the answer to our frustrations. Humility is not self-abasement; it is the ability to acknowledge I know a lot less than I care to admit. Pride is thinking we know so much, when we really know so little. Religion wants us to name it and claim it; prophesy it; declare it; and make it look and sound like we are operating in power and authority.

2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If MY people, who are called by MY name will humble themselves, seek my face and pray…” This is our calling, if we are His people, called by His name. Our first call is to humble ourselves. Humility is the ability to remain teachable in everything. There is always someone in the room that knows something you don’t, but you must be humble to realize this.

We are so dipped in heirarchy, we struggle with humility. Heirarchy is the need to put yourself above someone else, so you are the expert on a subject, but the challenge with heirarchy is in the kingdom love is the highest value and people who think they know so much actually lack love. Humility is manifested in our love, that people can see, hear, feel coming from us. We can know all the right answers, say all the right things, but if we have not love, we are not operating in humility.

We need to deconstruct heirarchy and the need to be right and put on love, for love is living for someone else, listening to others, serving people, love is not about me, it is about you. Jesus loved His Father so He obeyed Him all the way to and through the cross until He was seated right next to Him. What we need is love not to be right. Humility is loving and heirarchy is hindering us more than we realize, humble yourself, it will make you a lover of God and a lover of people.

Ponder some thoughts with me this morning. I know you just woke up, I know it is early and you have a list of things to do today, but take a moment and consider something the Lord just showed me.

Our frustration with people is not because we hate people, but because we have such a deep love for people. Our love for them sees in them things they cannot see in themselves and we want them to know who they really are, but when they don’t see it we get frustrated. Want to know a secret, they get frustrated with you for the same reasons.

The Lord gave me a chiropractic adjustment in the spirit yesterday morning and it lifted burdens off of me yesterday and unlocked revelation in me today. I was praying for four people and as I began to pray for them, the Lord began to speak to me about them. Listen to what the Lord said.

“There has been a deviation of original design, but I am the God who brings about the restoration of their original creation.” The Holy Spirit went on to say, “Remove deviation from them in prayer and restore to them original creation.” Restoration trumps deviation; creation trumps devastation. Everyone is redeemable.

Here are the four deviations that God is going to restore to original creation. One is those who are addicted to alcohol. The deviation is they are filled with wine and spirits, but the Lord says I created them to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Two, the deviation is sexual perversion, adultery specifically, but their original design was to be a covenant keeper, a defender of covenants. Three, the deviation is love of money, but their original creation was to be a lover of God. Fourth, the deviation is extreme selfishness, but original design was to be servant of all.

The Lord showed me the deviation and then the original creation. When we see a deviation in someone, we are seeing the counterfeit of original design. Rebuke, bind, cast out the deviation from them in prayer and plant, loose, decree into them their original design. God is about to restore people to their original design and it will be shocking to those who saw them spend so many years in deviation. Remember what happened when Saul became Paul.

Good morning church, yes we are temple the Holy Spirit, so we are the church. Church is not a Sunday morning event, it is a not a brick and mortar structure, it is you and I doing life together in the spirit and the natural. We are the church. So let me say it again, good morning church!!!!

I wanted to share with you something that I experienced this week during a time of corporate worship with my Hope UC Nashville community. Four of my favorite worship leaders were all leading together and each of them built one upon another to lead us a community into the presence of God. They worked as one unit, four voices and it was powerful. Anyone who was in the room would tell you it was like swimming in a jar of honey it was so good.

During this time together corporately, the Lord bent me over at the waist and my hands clung together and immediately I knew I had a jackhammer in my hand. I was praying in tongues with such strength I knew the Lord was breaking through something. As I continued to pray in the spirit, I continued to see this jackhammer drilling down.

I can still hear the sound of the jackhammer in the spirit even now, the Lord was drilling into what I saw as the crust of the earth. It was like an outer hard shell and he was drilling down into it. I saw the blade of the jackhammer penetrating slowing but consistently into the earth’s crust. The Lord showed me He is cracking open the crust of the earth and when it opens we are going to see and hear things we have never seen or heard before.

It can feel like what have done wrong that I can’t get a breakthrough; it can seem like this is taking so long, what is the hold up; we can self-examine ourselves into performing, rather than resting in obedience. What I saw and what the Lord is showing me is that this is not about me as an individual, but we as the nations. The Lord is cracking open, drilling down into the crust of the earth for a worldwide, international, all nations move of God.

Time is not our enemy it is our ally and what God is doing in our time on earth is a privilege of the likes we do not yet realize, but once it is acutalized, we will be praising in a way we did not know we could praise Him. Our shout will shake hell as our praise exalts the Lord God Most High who is faithful, who keeps His promises and who loves us more than we know. The jackhammer is drilling down to crack this thing wide open!

Have you heard the amplified voices declaring a shaking is coming? Have you wondered, when is it coming? Have you asked, what will it look like? Have you pondered how will it effect us? It is so easy to say a shaking is coming, not realizing all the questions people are asking about what is being said.

Voices that speak for God assume everyone understands our language, not realizing how many people smile and nod, read and scroll on to the next message on their feed. We as the church hear so much and see so little, we say amen, but don’t really let what was said sink deep inside of us.

Today is the first day of the Hebrew month called Kislev. There are many different calendars in the world, we have the Gregorian calendar, which is the one we use; there is the Mayan calendar; and the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew calendar is the calendar spoken of in the Bible. Kislev is the 9th month after Passover. So, today on the Hebrew calendar is the first of Kislev.

I have not really dove deep into the Hebrew months, what they mean and how they are prophetically aligned with what God is doing on the earth. I listen to others, but I have not dug in myself. Well, today the Lord highlighted to me the month of Kislev and how today is the first day of this new month.

Haggai 2 says, “Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid—consider it: Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ”

The Lord said to me, “Seeds have been sown, trees have been planted, but it has not yet rained, so no fruit has come forth. Until now. Consider, watch, for it is about to rain and I am going to bless my sowers who have sown but not seen a harvest yet. Yes this month of Kislev from the 24th day on, I will bless you.”

I am not one who makes stuff up just to tickle your ears or feed you candy prophesy. My friends, its about to rain and all those seeds in the ground are about to produce fruit. If you can’t believe, just consider, just watch, for many of you, you are not going to believe your eyes.

Haggai 2 speaks of the shaking and the blessing. This tells me, in this 9th month, this month of Kislev, this month of Hanukkah, it is going to rain and we are going to see miracles of the likes that will blow our minds. Just watch, just consider, for this is the Lord’s idea not mans.

We have access to more than we apprehend and we have been called to occupy more than we possess. Have you ever wondered why we shrink back from what we have been given?

I realize very clearly, confidence comes from winning, from overcoming, from seeing the fruits of labor actualized. I am fully aware of the battle we have been in for a solid 10 years or more as a church, but actually is probably a lot longer than that. I am not unaware of these things, but I hear the Lord saying, you must shake off the dust from your last season, for the new season has broke open for you.

Memories tend to damper our mobility; when the Lord is inviting us to arise and walk. The man at the gate beautiful in Acts 4 had been placed there to beg from birth, but one day, two men arrived at that gate without silver or gold, but with power and they grabbed him by the hands and lifted him up on his feet and the Bible says, his ankles were strengthened and he went into the temple, jumping, leaping and praising God.

God is sending people into our lives to give us a hand up, not a hand out, for it is a new season. They are coming in the power their words, their giftings, their love for God and for you. But if you still are looking for a hand out so you can stay in your old season, you are going to miss the invitation they are brining with a hand up to launch you into this next season.

We are being ushered into a season of the abundance of rain and when the rain hits the soil, the harvest is going to pop up so quickly, you are going to have to call your friends to help you with the mother load God is releasing upon us with the rain.

A friend at church yesterday was sharing with me the cloud a size of a man’s hand that she sees and I said to her, get ready, get ready, we are about to do a-bun-dance! Oh yeah, it is going to be so good, we are going to shake our buns as we rejoice in the harvest God is releasing. It is a new season, can you see the hand up God is extending to you? Can you hear the music playing the song, “Shake, shake, shake, shake your groove thing?” I can!

There is a decree in my mouth, there is a resolve in my spirit, even before I opened my Bible to pray this morning, the words, “I decree” came out of my mouth. I had not yet decreed anything, but I said, I decree and then opened my Bible to pray Psalm 12. The decree became crystal clear in this psalm as the decree of the Lord today.

Psalm 12:3-4 “With flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things, Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is lord over us?”

I decree fluffy and puffy lips be removed from the narrative of the nations. I silence every fluffy puffy voice controlling the narrative in media and church. I decree they shall no longer be amplified in our land, the fluffy and the puffy must not have a platform any longer in Jesus name.

Psalm 12:5-6 “Now I will arise, says the LORD; I will set him in the safety for which he yearns. The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.”

I decree the silver words of God will be the new narrative of the nations. I declare the purified words of God will prevail in the land. I decree with the rise of the cost of silver in the natural, it will be a sign of the rise of the silver words of God in the nations. The word of God will not bow to the fluffy and the puffy and neither shall we the people of God.

We cut off the fluffy and the puffy and we call forth the silver, purified seven times over, word of God to be the narrative of the nations. We decree it now in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Have a great Sunday!

The Holy Spirit spoke to me the other day saying, “The battle is over, the war is won; the Lord has left the battlefield; it is time to rejoice; come on let’s celebrate.” The words were so strong in my spirit, they felt real on a level I can’t explain. They brought such joy to my heart, it was as thought I could exhale after many years of holding my breath on the battlefield.

I have been pondering these words for days now, then today the Lord had me look up the words, the king has left the battlefield and what it led me to was The Battle of King’s Mountain in South Carolina. I found it timely since today is Veteran’s Day.

The Battle of King’s Mountain was fought between Patriots and Loyalists militias. The Patriots were called Overmountain Men, for they came from what is now Tennessee and traveled 330 miles along a wearisome wilderness road abounding with mountains and valleys. These men were considered a rag-tag group with makeshift ways. They fought with rifles which were slow to load but very accurate, rather than traditional muskets that were quick to load but inaccurate.

This battle is said by Thomas Jefferson to be “The turn of the tide of success.” Herbert Hoover said, “It was a little army and a little battle, but it was of mighty portent.” Theodore Roosevelt said, “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.”

I know it doesn’t look like it, but the Holy Spirit said, “The battle is over, the war is won; the Lord has left the battlefield; it is time to rejoice; lets celebrate!” On this Veteran’s Day, the Lord is declaring victory, and He is instructing us to rejoice, to celebrate. The Battle of King’s Mountain has been won yet again.

The Lord said, “We drink from broken cisterns and then wonder why we are dehydrated.” There is a river that never runs dry and when we drink from it, it springs up in us as an ever flowing stream. Change from where you are drinking and you will thirst no more.”

Jeremiah 2:11-13 “Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods?

But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD. ‘For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.’”

My friends, the Lord is inviting us as nations to stop drinking from broken cisterns that cannot hold water. We are literally sucking air and it is exhausting us. Right next to us, within reach is a river, a bubbling brook that never runs dry. It is the refreshing we long for; the living water we need, but we must choose to stop drinking from broken cisterns and drink from the bubbling brook.

Some think we are in a drought, no we are not in a drought, we are drinking from the wrong place. We drink from our own desires, hoping maybe one day our dreams will come true. We are drinking from other people, clinging onto their love and affirmation thinking it will quench our thirsty soul only to find ourselves thirsting for more. We drink from our bank account, addiction or community, thinking these highs will give us what we long for, only to find they are temporal not permanent relief.

The choice to change where you drink from is yours alone, but we need you to be well-watered, for as our rivers join together it creates a waterfall of God’s glory, power and love that wets nations that have long been deserts and causes flowers to arise in the desert; nations to turn to the Lord. It all starts with what you drink from, repent of drinking from broken cisterns and put your mouth to the river that never runs dry, it will hydrate you in a way you have been longing for.

Messages are coming in from all directions about seeing, dreaming, hearing the numbers 911 and 1111. This is not just now that we are approaching this date on the calendar, but this has been happening for some people for months on end. I got a message from a friend in Athens, Greece this morning saying she had a dream in which she said “Siri, call 911.” Over and over again.

Cindy Jacobs put out a word saying, 11/11 is a day of prayer for the nations. The prophets are saying 1111, but what does it mean, no one is clear, but some are watching the news thinking it is another 9/11 attack. All of these things combined can create confusion, fear or even apathy as dates come and dates go.

I was praying into this moments ago and the Lord was so clear when He said to me, “A New Nations Anthem!” Immediately I started singing, “You are worthy of it all, you are worthy of it all, for from you are all things, and to you are all things, you deserve the glory!” Over and over I sing this song and the Holy Spirit shows me a new anthem coming out of the nations. It’s an anthem of praise that will thwart the enemy.

Psalm 9:1-3 says,

“I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;

I will tell of all Your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in You;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

When my enemies turn back,

They shall fall and perish at Your presence.”

The invitation of the Lord is for the nations to praise, to worship, to lift our voice in song. It literally shatters the darkness, confuses the enemy, opens wide the heavens and the presence of God calms our fears. What the enemy is planning is not catching God off guard, so sing my friends, sing. Lift your voice for praise is the national anthems of the world.