Month: February 2025

One of the primary tactics of the enemy is to either use your mouth or shut your mouth. The mouth is the primary vessel the enemy uses against God’s people.

When I lived in Malaysia for nine years, the enemy silenced me, he literally put his hand over my mouth and made me believe I was dying. Some circumstances arose that sought to confirm I was dying, but they proved to be lying signs and wonders.

The enemy has put his hand over many a people’s mouth, but God says, you are not dead, you are not breathless, you are fully alive. While the enemy is covering your mouth, the Lord is laying on top of you, eye to eye, mouth to mouth and hand to hand. Your body is warm, but you have not begun to breath on your own yet.

2 Kings 4 speaks of Elisha the prophet and this is what it says, “When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm. Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.”

The Lord is saying to you today, your body is warm, but your mouth is still shut by the enemy so you are about sneeze, sneeze and sneeze again. Sneeze means violently forcing air out through the nasal passage while the cavity of the mouth is shut off. I am telling you, the enemy has his hand over your mouth, but God is laying on you and you are about to sneeze and every virus in you is coming out of you in Jesus name. Sneeze friends sneeze, there is breath inside of you!!!!

What are we missing? What is the secret ingredient that makes it all come together? What is that one thing that binds, holds, humbles, calibrates, exposes, and gives us that which we are missing? Jesus told us the one thing we are missing is love. He said everything can be summed up in two commandments, love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself. Is it any wonder this is the one thing we are missing in our homes, our churches, our friendships, our ministries, our companies, our cities, our countries?

The enemy could care less how much money you have or don’t have. He is not interested in how much you pray and how good you preach. He is not even moved by your gift, your calling, your destiny, your dreams, your desires or your ideas. There is one goal of the enemy and that is to cause your love to grow cold. His goal is to give you reasons to not give nor receive love.

1 Corinthians 13 says, if you have all these other things, but have not love, you are nothing. Love is the only goal and if you are a lover, all these things you desire will be added to you. The challenge is we do not evaluate ourselves to see if we are speaking in love, acting in love, or if our motive is love.

We take a lot of tests, to know who we are, but if we don’t take the love test, it doesn’t matter how talented, gifted or skilled you are. If you have not love, you are nothing. Let’s take the test…”Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.” (1 Cor. 13)

This is not about marriage but about every relationship. Are you a lover? Only you and God know if you pass the test, but if you don’t it is time to return to your first love ❤️.

The nations are the legacy of Jesus (Psalm 2), we must come into alignment with God’s assignment for the nations. A friend said to me the other day, “Opinions can become the seed bed of deception.” Friends there are so many opinions about what is happening right now and honestly, our opinions are formed and fashioned by what we have been taught, heard or studied. God is not being moved by our opinions, He is moving in the nations.

Our invitation is to come into alignment with God’s assignment for the nations. We may not understand or ever agree, but if we want to not miss the hour of our visitation, we need to be still and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10).

While in prayer this morning, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Josiah’s reforms are happening in America. America needs reformation because of the deformation and the defamation that has taken place.” Josiah’s reforms are found in 2 Chronicles 34; deformation means an alteration of form for the worst; and defamation means an act of injuring another’s reputation by any slanderous communication either written or oral.

I said, wow, yes Lord, we need a reformation because of our deformation and defamation as a nation. God is bring a reformation to our nation and the nations. We are seeing this happening swiftly with the stroke of a pen, similar to what Josiah did in 2 Chronicles 34 “He began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.”

We need this reformation in order to heal our deformation and for us to be forgiven of our defamation. Thank you Lord for the reformation you are bringing our nation. I want to be alignment with your assignment.

Have you ever thought about who we are as people? Have you ever noticed we pray for deliverance and then when it comes we don’t believe it? Have you ever asked yourself why you are so suspicious of the deliverer God is using to rescue you? The irony of it all is that we are exactly like Israel of old.

Exodus 3 says, “Then the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Israel prayed from Egypt to be delivered from their oppressors, God comes down in a burning bush, speaks to Moses to become their deliverer for God and the people don’t want Moses to deliver them. But thanks be to God, that Moses didn’t care if the people wanted him to deliver them, God wanted Moses to deliver them and so they were going to be delivered from their taskmasters.

Exodus 3 says it this way, “And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me (Yahweh), and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you (Moses) to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Thank God He hears our cry, answers our prayer and doesn’t let us ruin the deliverance we prayed for because we don’t recognize the day of our visitation. Friends, I love you, but we are being delivered from an enemy we have prayed to be delivered from and honestly it doesn’t matter if you like who God chose to deliver us or not. We are being delivered because God has heard our prayers and I am thankful. Bye bye Egypt!