Immediately upon awaking this morning the Holy Spirit said, “It is time to be circumcised again.” I knew this was a quote from Joshua 5:2 “At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.” Now the question was is this personal or national and as I read the story in which the verse comes from, I knew this was a command for national circumcision.

We have crossed over into a New Year, Israel had crossed over into a new land. Upon arrival in the new, the Lord called for circumcision again. But why? Haven’t we been through enough? Can’t we get to possessing what has been promised? The answer is yes, so we must be circumcised again as a nation.

The wilderness period is over. We are in the new land God has for us. Circumcision in Joshua 5 is tied to promise realized, it is about rolling away the reproach of Egypt, it is about establishing and reconstituting our covenant identity as a nation. We cannot possess the promise until we are marked by circumcision again.

We need this nationally, because all those decades in Egypt/Babylon gave us a slave identity; unfulfilled promises or hope deferred that made our heart sick; and gave us a dependence on Babylon mentality, which caused us to live in survival mode. These things God wants to roll off of us.

Egypt trained us to survive not inherit. Being circumcised again is giving us a new identity so we can begin again. This circumcision is preparing us to possess all that God has for us. We must be circumcised again as a nation.

Once we establish our national identity, we will walk in national authority and then be able to access our national inheritance. This circumcision again is happening to many many nations around the world, not just one, but many. God is preparing nations to inherit what He has promised them.

Our new learning curve is to move from survival to inheriting and this shift will be massive, so it starts with circumcision, which will roll back the reproach of Egypt so we can enjoy this Psalm 126 year where we are like those who dream! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org