Month: February 2025

The desire to feel safe is a human need placed in us by the Lord Himself who created us. Our need to feel safe does not change the older we get, but how we find safety does. When we were children we found safety in our father or mother’s arms. In our teenage years we found safety in our friendships. In our young adult years we found safety in a spouse or close intimate friends. In our adult years we find safety in our money.

It should not surprise us that both relationships and money are the two places we find safety, because everyone looks for safety in these two places. The challenge is neither of these two places are the source of our safety, henceforth why so many people struggle to trust other people. Relationships that were supposed to be safe proved not to be. When money wains we feel insecure. All because we put our trust in that which is not the source of safety.

Proverbs 18 says, “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe. A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.” Matthew 6 says, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

The source of our safety must be the name of the Lord. Yeshua, Yahweh, Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit, His name is the only source of safety that will never be shaken. When we are anchored in this as our safe place, then He will give us safe relationships and safe finances. Most people are shaken because their safety source is in something other than the name of the Lord.

Tuck this truth away, because we have entered into justice and justice has drawn a line in the sand. Some are graduating and being deployed, while others are going to be trained by fire in this next season. Everyone is redeemable but not everyone made the same choices in the last season. The goal is always to bring us to the source of safety, the name of the Lord.

The devil is a defeated foe, but the seeds of his influence are still growing in the hearts of those who listen to his voice. It is no wonder Paul said, our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against powers, rulers principalities in the heavenly realms (Eph. 6). It is a words war we are in.

Trying to fight a battle in the flesh or in your own strenght will not profit you anything, but it will cause you more problems. Everyone of us is susceptible to wanting to engage in a flesh battle, but this battle is not fleshly, it is spiritual. Paul said, “And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:13-14)

What if the natural has been prophesying to us what we are invited to do in the spiritual? What if the creation of Space Force was a reminder that we are to do air warfare? If you have tried to war in the flesh to no avail, you are in a battle that is spiritual not natural. You must do air warfare and it takes a different approach and posture.

There is a story about Jonathan, Saul’s son, defeating the Philistines, by going after them on his hands and knees. Not exactly the posture of a warrior fighting in the flesh. 1 Samuel 14:13 says “Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel. Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer.”

Air warfare is where we fight not with power, not with might, but with the spirit of God (Zechariah 4:16). God is winning battles everyday, because air warfare is happening. Come up higher, you will find a decree does more than a discussion.

People reveal their theology (what they believe about God) through the words they speak. Theology has been taught to them by other people standing behind pulpits, or podiums in schools and they believed it. Most people’s theology came from a book or some other person, not from spending time with God, who is perfect theology.

Truth is here and it is dismantling the theology men have taught us, so we can hear, see and interact with the God of the Bible, the Lord of Creation, Jesus the Christ and the Holy Spirit who is God. Men’s theology has become a stronghold and many spout it as truth, not realizing what they are saying isn’t even biblical.

I saw in the spirit “dams” (A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water) that are blocking the flow of what God wants to do in people, cities, churches, nations and the world. These dams had written on them the word, THEOLOGY. These dams were not granting access but hindering flow.

As I looked at these dams in the spirit, I saw truth coming like a bomb to blow up the dams so people could see, hear, and know God for who He is not for who someone told Him He was. As truth hit the dams of theology, the dam broke and the river of God rushed into people’s lives and set them free.

John 8:31-32 “Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

I see truth incoming and incoming in a way that is going to blow up our theology.

We are living history in the making. When you are living it, many struggle to see it. Prophets have declared it, now it is manifesting on earth as it is in heaven. Can you see it? Can you hear it? Can you discern the day of your visitation? Oh the sweet fragrance of the presence of God invading earth, there is no smell quite like it.

A good friend of mine sent me a video this morning that brought me behind the curtain on something’s I could not have known. Now that I have heard, now that I have seen, I was given insight in ways I did not have before and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “The four coders are the four craftsmen of Zechariah 1.”

I immediately opened my bible to read, “And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns! And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

We have been living under the authority of the four horns for so long, just as Israel lived in Egypt or under Babylon, so when the matrix of wickedness was breaking some did not believe it or see it. God has released the four craftsmen again and they are systematically dismantling things we are seeing and hearing about on the news today.

The kingdom of God, which is the government of God, the mountain of the Lord (Isaiah 2) is ruling on earth as it is on heaven again. Can you see the stone striking the feet of iron and clay (Daniel 2)? Turn on the news, you will see what is falling and hear about what is rising. Babylon has fallen and will continue to fall and the kingdom is rising and will be an everlasting kingdom. We are living in biblical history as our current reality.

Flies and frogs. The Lord has been speaking to me for over a week now about flies and frogs. As the swamp is drained the frogs are croaking louder and louder, while the flies are buzzing around and laying eggs on open wounds and dead things.

These are two animals I do not think much about, but when the Holy Spirit highlights them, I must pay attention. In Revelation 16 frogs are called unclean spirits that come out of the mouth of three creatures, the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. Frogs are voices that are polluting the atmosphere.

Flies are linked biblically to Mark 3:22 where Jesus is accused of using the Lord of the flies in His ministry. “The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” The Holy Spirit told me the flies are lies that are landing on open wounds and laying eggs in order to multiply the lie.

I have been on a prayer retreat for the past four days and when I opened a drawer in the place I am staying a fly came out. As the day went on more than one fly was flying around. I grabbed the fly swatter and killed a total of eight flies, then the Lord said, “Those are the lies that are flying around people. They need to kill them or they will lay eggs on their wound and multiply their lies.”

Today is the end of my prayer retreat, all the flies are dead, and what is amazing is a butterfly was seen. Butterflies represent new life, transformation. Taking out the lies in the spirit, silencing the croaking of the frogs in prayer is how we deal with atmospheric enemies who are seeking to divide. For Jesus said in Mark 3:24 “, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”

God is dealing with the flies and frogs in the nations, in our churches, in our families, in our lives. The reason for this is because New Life is upon us and the old lies (flies) and old polluted thoughts (frogs) are not allowed in our new day (butterfly) life. The enemy is defeated in so many ways, now we rise up together and enjoy the sights and sounds of new life and declare “Die Fly”.

Have you ever asked for something, got what you asked for and then after further consideration realized you should not have asked for what you originally asked for? We all have done this. In the moment we think we want one thing, only later to find out we didn’t really want what we thought we wanted so badly in the moment we asked for it.

Israel told the prophet Samuel they wanted a king, despite Samuel warning them they did not know what they were asking for, but they gave three reasons why they wanted a king. “And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 1. that we also may be like all the nations, and 2. that our king may judge us and 3. That our king will go out before us and fight our battles.” (1 Samuel 8)

Samuel the prophet told them the Lord wants to be your king and they said, NO! We want an earthly king. Oh friends, how often do we want from men what God has already said He wants to be for us? More often than we will ever admit. We ask for things we think we want, but we end up getting what we never wanted.

God wanted them to be a different kind of nation; they wanted to be like all the other nations. God wanted to be judge of them; they wanted to be judged by men. God wanted to fight their battles for them; they wanted a man to fight their battles for them. A man became their god and in becoming so, God was no longer the one they leaned on or depended on.

Friends, it is subtle, it is sneaky, and it is serious to ask for a man to be your king, when God has already declared He is your King of kings and Lord of lords. If we need to repent of anything personally, corporately and nationally it is for asking God to give us a king, when He is our King. We need leaders, we need authority, we need men, but a king, nope, we have a King and His name is Jesus.

The other day I was walking into a location to meet a friend for coffee and I saw a man cutting cinder blocks with a power saw. I walked by, took notice and thought, I had never saw anything like that before. With ease he was using this saw blade to cut through those cement blocks. This morning in prayer the Lord said, “It is time to change the blade”.

Christianity and prayer movements have been using one blade called breakthrough, but God is changing the blade to saw through. Some strongholds don’t break, they don’t bend, they don’t burn, some strongholds must be sawed through. In prayer this morning the Lord showed me rebar in the spirit as a stronghold.

Rebar is short for reinforcement bar or reinforcing bar, known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement; is a tension device added to concrete to form reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension.

The strongholds God is cutting down demands a blade that can cut through rebar and cement. What I saw in the spirit was rebar that was cemented in people’s soul which went back to childhood. The rebar is the stronghold that has been holding the lie in place for many many years.

The blade must change in prayer if we are going to be successful at cutting through the rebar and the cement in order to set people free from their strongholds of lies they can’t stop believing.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.”

God is giving us a new blade to use in prayer so we can saw through the rebar which is a stronghold and the cement which is holding the rebar in place, so we can be set free from the stronghold of lies that are hindering us from the freedom Christ has come to give us. It’s time to change the blade we use in prayer.

The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me about how familiar people are with God and how casually they treat Him. Many treat God so casually they decide whether they want to obey God or not; they choose how they want to treat people created in God’s image; they decide if they want to raise their hands, sing or not in church; shoot they decide whether or not they even want to pray. The spirit of familiarity has bred a generation of people who have treated God causally.

This morning I was reading 1 Samuel 6:20 “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God?” The people were struck by the fear of God and recognized the power of God, which is what produced this statement they said about God. A church that does not operate in the power of God not only produces a powerless people, it creates a casual Christianity that keeps us familiar with God.

The Holy Spirit said to me moments ago, “When people treat God casually they become a casualty.” I had to look up the definition of casualty and what I found is this, “A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion.” We have many casualties in the body of Christ, because we have treated God casually.

Friends, familiarity with God has bred a generation that does not honor God, does not obey God, does not worship God, does not respect God’s word or His ways, or His commands. We have become so comfortable with God we think God approves of everything we do and say. Our treatment of God casually has created many casualties. We must repent for treating God so casually, He is God, we are not.

The season has changed, but not instantly, rather is changing continually. This has nothing to do with weather, circumstances or current realities. The season has changed has to do with a decree from heaven to the earth.

The sackcloth is being removed layer by layer. The tears are being bottled and wiped from our cheeks. The pain of the past is slowly giving way to the joy of a bright future. This is not a quick process, but it is a process that has been set in motion by the spirit of God.

The cooing of doves, the chirping of birds, the bubbling brook, the leaves rustling in the wind. If you listen to creation, you can hear it, the season has changed. The days of mourning are giving way to the days of rejoicing. The funeral dirge is giving way to the wedding song.

“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” (Psalm 96)

Our song is our steering wheel directing us in the way we should go. Sing my friends sing, sing a new song unto the Lord. Sing a new song over your family, over your friends, over your community, over your city, over your nation. Sing, sing, sing.

It may not look like it yet, but the season has changed and the manifestation of that change will be seen and we are being invited to sing a new song unto the Lord, for He has done marvelous things.

I took this picture while driving the other day and the Lord said, the sun is breaking through the clouds, can you see the change?

Words are powerful. They get stuck in our minds, lodged in our hearts, roll around in our heads, heal our souls. We sing them, we speak them, we write them, we think them. Proverbs says, the power of life and death is in the tongue. James says, the tongue is the smallest member of the body but has the most power. Words are eternal.

Words also change over time, phrases take on new meanings, so when we hear something we assume it means what we have learned it to mean. However, when God speaks, if we assume we know what He is talking about we may miss what He is saying.

The Lord spoke to me the other day the word forgive and said, “Forgiveness is pouring salt in a wound.” I said to the Lord, pouring salt in a wound is adding insult to injury, then the Holy Spirit said, “Not originally, look it up.” So I did and what I found made total sense why the Lord said, “Forgiveness is pouring salt in a wound.”

Originally, before medication was so readily available, they would pour salt in a wound, for salt acted as an anticeptic, anti-bacterial, anti-viral medicinal agent. Pouring salt in a wound actually healed the wound. How we went from pouring salt in a wound as a medicinal act, to it adding insult to injury I am not sure. But what I do know, is that when we forgive someone we are actually pouring salt in their wound and healing them.

We hurt people out of our own woundedness, so when we forgive people we pour salt in their wound and it heals them. Makes me wonder if this why Jesus said in Matthew 5 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” We are called to be ones who forgive others by pouring salt in their wound for their healing.