Month: September 2024

The desire to be in charge, the desire to rule and reign is a God given desire to us who are created in the image of God. Yahweh is ruler of the nations and we who are created in His image have been given dominion over all of creation. The desire to take dominion is not an evil desire, it is a God given desire. The challenge is, the enemy of our soul knows we were created with a dominion mandate, but in true demonic fashion, it has been twisted in order to get us to rule over one another, rather than to rule over creation. 

Psalm 8:5-8 says, “What honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than Elohim, crowned with glory and magnificence. You have delegated to them rulership over all you have made, with everything under their authority, placing earth itself under the feet of your image-bearers. All the created order and every living thing of the earth, sky, and sea— the wildest beasts and all that move in the paths of the sea— everything is in submission to Adam’s sons.” 

King David is telling us we have been given dominion over: Abundance; harvest; creation; land; the waters; animals; every created thing is in submission to us. The enemy tells us we have dominion over other people, but we do not have dominion over other people, we have dominion over creation. No wonder Romans 8 says, all of creation is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God. Creation is waiting for us to take dominion. 

We get frustrated, go to war, fight, strive, and steal all because we want dominion over other people, and they won’t let us control them because we do not have authority over them. Church, it is a full time job to take dominion over creation and if we did it together, as image bearers of God, we would have so much work to do, but the enemy has convinced us we get to have dominion over other people, so we are making little progress in our calling over creation because we are fighting with other image bearers. It’s time to take dominion away from ruling other people and to start taking dominion over creation. Creation is already submitted to us, but we have not been ruling over it. You have been given dominion, rule over creation and watch it yield its increase to you!!!! 

Christianity has been programmed to view judgment as a negative word, almost to the point of being a swear word that people run from at all cost. The reason for this is because we do not understand what judgment does, what is means, what purpose it holds. The other reason is because it has been used as a weapon to condemn not a decree to heal, build and establish. God is redeeming words in this day and hour, He is switching decrees, for great change is upon us and even our language is going to have to pivot to truly enter into this new age in which we are walking in.

Psalm 7 is the place where I learned what judgement is really all about. I remember the first time I prayed this psalm and the Lord showed me that judgement is to eradicate wickedness and establish righteousness. This was the first time I saw the redemptive nature of judgment and why God is called Judge of all the earth. Without a judge, without a judgment being rendered wickedness goes unchecked and runs rampant. We need God as Judge or we may as well say we don’t need Deborah in Judges 4-5; we don’t need David as King of Israel; we don’t need Jesus as Messiah; without an understanding of judgment we don’t really understand restoration, redemption, and reconciliation.

Today, I am praying Psalm 7 again and the Holy Spirit says, “We are changing the decree today from decreeing public exposure of wickedness, to public vindication of the righteous.” I was shouting, rejoicing, and decreeing Psalm 7:6-8, “Execute the judgment you have decreed against them. All the people gather around you. Return to your place on high to preside over them. You are Yahweh who judges the people. Vindicate me publicly, Yahweh, and restore my honor and integrity. Declare me innocent. Once and for all, bring to an end the evil tactics of the wicked! Establish the cause of the righteous!”

Friends, the decree has changed, we are no longer looking for or calling for public exposure of the wicked, but now we are decreeing, let us see public vindication of the righteous, in Jesus name. For this public vindication will eradicate wickedness and establish righteousness. Let’s go!!!!!

For the past three days I have been hearing the Holy Spirit say, “And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.” (Job 42:10)

When we are in a battle, financially, relationally, physically, or mentally the default position is to think about only ourselves. We tend to hunker down, pull in the belt, isolate ourselves and make it all about us. I am not sure if that is our fear of showing weakness; our belief we need to work this out on our own; or a result of our individualistic cultural mindset. No matter the reason, the answer is not found in going through it alone, thinking only about ourselves, the answer is in praying for our friends.

The kingdom of God has the most creative unconventional solutions to our problems. We may consider them foolish, so we ignore them, but the Holy Spirit keeps nudging me with this verse in Job 42:10 “And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

If you have friends you know what they are going through. Friends share with each other what they are struggling with. Some people take that information and make it gossip, others take that information and make it prayer. The difference between gossip and prayer is about who you are sharing the information with. When we pray for our friends, God boomerangs our prayers and sends us help in our situation.

When I hear of a friend in financial trouble, I pray for them and then God blesses my finances. When I hear of a friend who is grieving the death of a loved one, I pray for them and God comforts me in my grief of a lost relationship. When I know of a family or marriage struggle, I pray for them and then I hear of God working behind the scenes in my family and marriage. Friends, our job is not to pray for and worry about our own issues, we are being invited to pray for our friends and in doing so, God will take care of what we are struggling with and He will restore double. Just ask Job.

There was a war at the gate last three or so weeks, in the spirit, and it was fierce. I do not know of a fiercer battle I engaged in, but now that we have made it through that gate, the spiritual atmosphere is palpable. It is obvious not just to me, but to others I speak with as well and the evidence of it is manifesting in the hunger and reception of truth I hear in people. If you went through a fierce battle of any kind the past three weeks or so, know it was nothing personal, there was war at the gate.

This past week I have been hearing the voice of God in multiple puzzle pieces of which I am only sharing privately at this time, for I am not sure what they all mean yet. However, last night, I had a dream/vision of a person with lasers coming out of their eyes and it was etching a new blueprint. I saw this vision as clear as day in my sleep and heard the words, “Etching Eyes!” Over and over again, I kept hearing “Etching Eyes”.

As I leaned into this words in my sleep, I heard the Holy Spirit say, “You have heard it said, itching ears (2 Timothy 4:3), but these are etching eyes. Miracles will be etched into you all as part of the new blueprints that etching eyes see.” I wake up and immediately look up 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” The Holy Spirit says, “This is where you all have been but you are going from itching ears to etching eyes.”

I look up what etching is and it says “Etching as a method of print making, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints and remains in wide use today.” Friends, God is giving us etching eyes, He is etching inside of us a new blueprint which will be the new pattern we follow. The days of itching ears is over and the days of etching eyes is here. We are going to see things miraculously that will etch inside of us a master print that will be copied over and over again for years to come, that our God is a God of miracles. Everything has changed!!!!!

With so many things to pay attention to, how do you prioritize what is most important? We only have so many hours in a day, so much capacity to contain information, or process situations. Do you realize how much you consume in the way of information, emotions, and even atmospheres in a day? Our ability to consume is greater than our ability to assimilate what we have consumed. If we do not make space, take time, to assimilate what we have absorbed, we will react rather than respond; we will attack rather than seek to understand; we will hurt others rather than help be one that heals others. We must slow down and assimiliate what we are consuming.

The Passion Translation says in Proverbs 4:23 “So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.”

When we are operating in wisdom, we are placing a high priority on our innermost being; we are paying attention to where our affections are going; we are guarding what our heart is being drawn to and why. The Holy Spirit has taught me that self-control is a full time job, that is why I do not have time to micromanage or control anyone else. Now we all can advise, counsel, direct, and walk with other people, but we have no ability or authority to control anyone else, for we do not even have time to assimilate and control all we are consuming, let alone what someone else is.

Church, it is time for a priority shift. We must prioritize guarding our own hearts, assimiliating our own atmosphers and affections, and making sure our wellspring is producing fresh, pure, clean water so when others come into our lives they are refreshed not contaminated by what is coming out of us. Make time, take space, don’t fear the exploration of what you find in your own innermost being, you are your first priority and responsibility. Then when you are faithful with you, you will be entrusted to walk with others.

Hearing the voice of God is not hard if you are able to live in the moment. Yahweh is a now time God. He does not dwell on the past, He is not afraid of the future, so He is a continual ever present help in times of trouble. He is a now time God. Since Christ is in us and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, that means we must calibrate our cadence to that of the God who lives in now time. This takes a dying to ourself, a trusting in God, and a realization that He alone holds everything in His hands. Once you access the “now” in time, it changes everything as it pertains to hearing God’s voice. He speaks in now moments, no matter where you are or what you may be doing. We miss His voice not because we can’t hear it, but because we are living in a different time zone than He is. Come out of the time zone called past, come out of the time zone called future and come into the time zone called now and you will hear the voice of God in now time.

This morning I was walking my dog and his name is Hunter and he is a Dachshund. We walk every morning and today the Holy Spirit had me pause and watch him as he had his nose to the ground, then in a hole, tail straight in the air, waving it so I knew he found something. Next thing you know he is digging, snorting and is in pursuit of the mole in that hole. As I stood there smiling at my dog, the Holy Spirit said, “This is how you enter into another’s joy.” I pondered that for the rest of my walk.

We enter into other people’s joy, sorrow, victories, challenges, by living in the moment with them. It was not about me doing the digging or snorting or wagging of the tail, but knowing Hunter was having the time of his little doggie life, made me smile. Then the Holy Spirit said, “This is how you enter in!” Friends, we are being invited to enter in to other people’s joy, sorrow, challenges, victories. Enter in with them and know we can also enter into the Lord’s joy. Matthew says it best in chapter 25 “He who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”

Friends the invitation is to enter in!

We have been trained to believe we are to fear darkness, evil, wickedness, and being under that spirit of fear has done great damage to so many of us. This spirit robs us of time, energy, relationships, finances, and even our health. But what we do not realize is this spirit is deceiving us, because that is the only weapon it has against us.

I was reading Philippians 1 last night and as I did the Holy Spirit opened up my eyes to read something I had never seen before in that way. Listen to these verses Paul penned, “Stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.” Do you hear what Paul is telling us?

When we the church stand firm in one spirit, with one mind, striving side by side, not frightened in anything, this is a clear sign to them (our enemies) of their destruction. The one who seeks to destroy you, us, is destroyed when we stand together, when we think like Christ, when we work together. Come on!!!!!

Friends, our enemy is destroying us with deception, for that spirit knows when we come together it is a sign to it that this system of control and destruction is going down. We are the sign that says you, Babylon are being destroyed, we are not. God is not out to destroy us, He loves us, He just needs us to believe it, so we can stand together and be the sign that says, Babylon you are falling, you are being destroyed, and we are being saved!!!!!! Now that is some really good news!

Have you ever heard the phrase, “The body keeps the score?” It is a statement similar in meaning to what the Bible says, “As a man thinks so he is.” The body keeps the score is the idea that your body remembers the trauma you have gone through, the abuse you have endured, the attitudes and mindsets that govern your life. We may try to hide it so others don’t know what we are thinking or feeling, believing or receiving but the body keeps the score. This is why physicians are being trained in mental disorders for the connections between things like Alzheimer’s and unforgiveness are being linked together.

The reason I bring this up is because the Holy Spirit spoke to me this morning and said, “The church needs to repent for having man as its head rather than having Jesus as the head of the body.” Church, we have bought into the lie that man is our head. This lie has caused the body of Christ to be more like a man than Iike God. So goes the head, so goes the body. Colossians 1 says, “He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”

When the body comes back into alignment with Christ as the head, we will find healing flowing freely; truth running rampant; freedom being our frequency; love being our culture; joy being our expression; the body of Christ will operate in authority, will have the mind of Christ and will flourish on earth as it is in heaven. But we must repent of aligning the body of Christ, micro and macro with the head of man, rather than with Christ as our head. When this switch happens, we will see miracles manifest effortlessly, the body heal naturally, and the kingdom advance significantly, but it starts with getting the right head on this body called the church.