What we are accustomed to is what we listen to. The voices we believe are the ones that affirm our history, rather than pave our future. When we got saved, our confession of faith made our spirit brand new (2 Corinthians 5:17); but we must read the word of God in order to renew our minds (Romans 12:2).

Our minds are like railroads of thinking, thoughts come barreling down the tracks like trains. Whistles blowing, lights flashing, warning anyone nearby to watch out, stay off the tracks or get run over. The Lord is inviting us to lay some new tracks in our mind, so we can allow the glory train to run on our tracks. The glory train picks up passengers along the way it doesn’t run people over who get in our way.

I see the land being healed, but a healed land needs a healed people. We salt rivers, blow shofars, pour oil on the soil, all in preparation for a healed land to receive the gift of a healed people. Our healing as people is critical, because the land is being healed and we are the perfect match for the land.

Joel 2 says, ““Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things!”

The Lord is simulataneously healing the land and people, so when the people take the land for the glory of God, everything will produce life. Our words will be filled with life, our thoughts will be running on the tracks the glory train rides on and everything will come alive.

I can hear the train whistle in the background, and it is evidence of God doing great things for the land and for His people.