Hear something once it can be in one ear and out the other, hear something twice and it causes us to at least pause and wonder what is this echo I am hearing and why. Many people miss the voice of God not because they cannot hear God but because they do not lean in to the echo. Pause, ponder, lean in to listen, you might experience the voice of God in the most unusual and unsuspecting places for He is the only God who is living; the only God who speaks; and the only God who hears. Jesus Christ is a living God not a statue, idol or monument to something that was.

I was reading Psalm 59 and Proverbs 29 this morning and a phrase caught my attention in Psalm 59 then was echoed in Proverbs 29. I have been telling people, the Holy Spirit is the perfect point guard for He passes you the word right in front of you as you are going through your day, your devotions, your discussions, your driving, your whatever you are a doing. Here is what I saw in Psalm 59 “Here they come again— prowling, growling like a pack of stray dogs in the city. But as for me, your strength shall be my song of joy. At each and every sunrise, my lyrics of your love will fill the air! For you have been my glory-fortress, a stronghold in my day of distress.” Now for the echo from Proverbs 29, “The wicked always have a trap laid for others, but the lovers of God escape as they sing and shout in joyous triumph!”

Here is what I am sensing, we are going to need to sing, shout and rejoice even when it looks Iike we should be scared, intimidated, and on the run. I sense the enemy is about to release something that will try to spook us, but the Lord is putting a song in us, a shout in us. Emotions are energy in motion, you are going to want to do one thing, but I sense the Lord inviting us to see beyond the smoke and mirrors the enemy wants to release to see the victory God has decreed. It is time to see the walls of Jericho fall, shout, sing my friends for God has given us the victory.