The sound of the shofar is being blown in the spirit, but what if it is not a call to war, but a call to praise? What if we are so used to battles, wars, survival, selfishness, tightening the belt, battening down the hatches, hiding, that we don’t know what to do with the sound we are hearing, because we are assuming it is the same sound sending the same message? 

We as people are pattern people. We get into patterns of behavior, patterns of operation and honestly we make a lot of assumptions about sounds, situations and people. We think we know what the sound means, what their intentions or motives are, or even why this or that is happening. The reason being is historically this is what the pattern has been. But friends, God is breaking rank with old patterns in a massive way. 

We may be hearing similar or even the same sounds, but they mean something completely different now. Listen to Pslam 150 as it pertains to the sound of the ram’s horn, which historically was a call to battle, but now is a call to something else. “Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heaven! Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness! Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn.” 

The sound of the shofar is being blown in the spirit, but it is not a call to war, it is a call to praise, a call to rejoice, a call to celebrate. We must learn to discern the new day we are in. This move of God is so good, we don’t even recognize it, because we have so many historically negative things we have encountered, we resist the blessing being given to us. Listen again, yes it’s the same sound, but it is sending a different message. Rejoice, praise, celebrate, this is what the sound of the shofar is saying for such a time as this. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org