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Have you ever wondered why the enemy targets your relationships? Have you ever thought about the fact that if he can erode your ability to trust, he can keep you unstable? Psalm 125:1 says, “Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.” The Lord spoke to me and said, “those who can’t trust God or people are unstable people.” He went on to show me, “the reason the enemy attacks our relationships is to erode our trust which will make us unstable.” I had never put trust and being unshakable together like that. God knows the tactics of the enemy. He knows the enemy could careless about your relationships, but he does care if you are stable. He knows better than we do, that trust is what makes us immovable.

Trusting God and trusting people will give you the ability to not be moved. Gas prices can rise or fall and you are not moved; nation can go to war against nation and you are not moved; this President can build this or that, that President can cancel this or that, but you are not moved; then people think you are sticking your head in the sand, no you are trusting God, so you are immovable. When we trust God and the people God has placed in our lives, we are not moved by what we see or hear. It does not mean we are not concerned, we are not affected, we are not hearing about it, it just means we are not moved by it, for our trust is not in earthly government, men or women in some house, or the economy. Our trust is in the Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. We see what is going on and we pray, but we are not moved, for we know who our God is and He has never let the righteous go begging bread and He works all things together for the good for those who love Him.

One final thing, even though we are immovable because of our trust, we know many people are not, so we decree “the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong’(Psalm 125:3). I am breaking the scepter of wickedness off our nation, so more people can know God alone is trustworthy and He is the one who makes us unshakable. For righteousness will exalt this nation again, I see it and I decree it.

Many fear missing out, so they pick up the pace, thinking speed is the way to run the race. But in the fast pace, we miss so many things, for the enemy is driving us to do more, be more, screaming inside of us faster, faster, more, more. So, we set another goal, we push, we strive, we struggle, and we do not realize it is all the result of an internal fear of missing out. Not realizing, that in our striving, in our speed, we miss out, for God is not in a hurry. He is actually inviting us to slow down, to seize the day, to enjoy the moment. Psalm 46 says, when everything around you is in a hurry, screaming tragedy, trouble, hurry, the Lord says, in verse 10 “Be still and know that I am God.” The greatest gift we can give ourselves and others is the ability to slow down and be in the moment. This is how we don’t miss anything, because we learned to embrace the God who is our everything.

God speaks more languages than we even know. He not only can speak every language that is known, He can and does speak in parabolic language to us that we will understand. To an agriculturally based culture in scripture He spoke about sheep and shepherds; wheat and chaff; sowers and seed. To you and me and He speaks a language we can understand, and today the Lord spoke to me in the language of football. I love the sport called American Football. I love playing it and I love watching it. The Lord knows this about me, so this morning when He used football to show me something, I understood whaat He was saying and if you are a football fan, you will understand this as well.

When Jesus walked the earth in human flesh, He was a player on the field of the earth. When He rose from the dead He became our heavenly coach. He is still very involved in the game on earth, but He is no longer a player, but now is a coach. He sends in the game plan for us to execute. He trains the team; He sets the players in their correct positions; He is fully engaged as coach. Our job then is to let Him coach us from the heavenly realm and we are to execute the plays He sends in.

Paul in Romans 8:37 then says this, “No matter what comes, we will always taste victory through Him who loved us.” He is not just our coach, He is our Head, our Father, our Advocate, our Redeemer, He is our everything. Our job is to stay in the position He has placed us, run the plays He has given to us, and work in unison with the team He has joined us with in this generation. This picture of Jesus as our heavenly seated coach was a fresh perspective for me on how intimately involved He is with us here on earth and how honored I am to be a player on His team.

The Lord is a master at showing you the end product He desires and then if you are willing to take the time to listen, He will bring you back to the beginning to show you how to get there, step by step.

This morning, I was reading, and receiving Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 where it says, “I pray the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so you will know the hope of His calling; the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints; and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe.” As I began to receive His power, He began to show me how He wants to do healing in our generation. The Lord said, “You all love the one, but I love the many.” It’s not the individual power God is after, it’s corporate power He desires.

Currently people are looking for an individual with a gift of healing to pray for healing, for power coming out of one person. We have seen this model, we know it well. But the Lord wants corporate power; power coming out of the group. The Lord said, “I pour my spirit out not on one, but on all, so not just one, but all can do it together.” He then brought me to Acts 2. What I saw in the spirit, was the gift of healing coming on a group of people, so we all prayed for the person to be healed, and they were healed, it was corporate not individual.

There is a hinderance to this though. The enemy has put a fear of the “all”; the “corporate” in us. We hear this and think “cult” or we fear not getting to be the “one”, so we shy away from the “all” and then never experience it. The fear of being controlled, not getting to do what I want, keeps us individual. This implanted fear hinders us more than we know in the body of Christ.

Then the Lord revealed to me, the more fearful we are, the more consumed with self we are. Therefore, the solution is perfect love that casts out all fear. When we know we are loved, our focus is not on self, but on others. If we are going to become “all” we must experience perfect love, for that is where fear loses its grip on us and we can let go of self, which will result in “ALL”.

Since around 300AD the church has been taught, symbolically if you will, the baptism of John. We have specialized in evangelism as it pertains to saying a prayer for salvation, and in the words of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles we have learned the elementary teachings of Christ, but it is time to leave those behind and press on to maturity, it’s time for meat (Hebrews 5 – 6). Many have become experts in the baptism of John (the elementary teachings); most of the church leaders and therefore, the church members are elementary in their understanding of Christ. We reverberate and recycle over and over the milk issues of the word. Most leaders in the church, both denominational and Pentecostal are the greatest in the ministry of John the Baptist. But it is a new day, we are in a new era and the revealing of the least in the kingdom are being heard and are about to change the narrative in the church worldwide. Jesus said it this way, “I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” (Luke 7:28).

People who have done ministry and have been successful at it, most only know the gospel of John. What Jesus calls the least it the kingdom are coming with the narrative of the gospel of the kingdom and it won’t look or sound like what is so loud today. Now the question is, when you hear them, meet them, will you be like Apollos and get trained by them or will you be like the Jews who oppossed and persecuted Paul for tellling them and the people something they themselves didn’t know? Acts 18:24-26 says, “Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.”

Ready or not, here they are and here they come. Their voice will continue to increase in volume around the world, for they are here with wisdom and revelation not of themselves, but of Jesus Christ. They may be the least in the kingdom, but they are greater than the greatest in the John the Baptist ministry and the demarcation will be obvious. Now will you humble yourself and come into the kingdom or rise up and persecute them? I guess we are about to find out because they are not going to stop preaching the gospel of the kingdom!

The MSM has a way of getting many people to focus on the nation they deem worthy of attention for their own reasons. If you were to look back on your social media sites, you will find when the media says Ukraine, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, France, you name the nation, then many people put pray for _________________. People change their profile picture to match the nation the media highlighted, they get online and prophesy or pray for the nation the MSM highlights. My friends, it reveals who is listened to and it is not God it is the media. The more you follow the media’s lead the more you are going to live a low bar life. Come up higher, come up here is wha was told to John in Revelation 4 and I will show you what is soon to take place. My friends, if God is speaking, you will have insider information ahead of time, but if you are only hearing the media, you are following their lead and they know it for they have all the data on how you respond to what is said, so they keep baiting you with things to do and pray and say.

As believers, we are not to act like this. It shows such low level understanding of anything and make us look ridiculous as believers, especially to those who know things the media is not telling you. We are to be ones who know and hear the voice of God; we are according to John 10 to follow His voice and the voice of a stranger we are not to follow. The challenge is, many believers know the voice of the media better than the voice of God. So, today what is God saying, Psalm 117:1 says, the Lord is saying, “Praise the LORD, all nations; Laud Him, all peoples!” When God says this, you start to call out nations by name to praise the Lord. Praise the Lord Greece; Oman; Switzerland; Columbia; Guam; Dominican Republic; Cambodia; Uzbekisstan; Panama; and so many other nations that never make the news. When you start to see the nations on this Sunday praising the Lord, you see Senegal in praise, Pakistan in worship, UAE with hands raised; New Zealand in celebration of our God. It gives you an international perspective of praise and reminds you that Psalm 2 said, “Ask of me and I will give the nations to you as your inheritance.” Jesus is the inheritor of the nations, so it’s time to call them to praise, because God is saying so. It will change your perspective for God said it not the news.

In the Old Testament it was a requirement to give offerings. Leviticus 1 – 5 tells us the 5 major categories of offerings that were required under the Old Covenant. They are 1)The Burnt Offeings; 2) The Grain Offerings; 3) The Peace Offerings; 4) The Sin Offerings; 5) The Guilt Offerings. These 5 offerings were a requirement under the Old Covenant. But Jesus, who embodied all the offeings required in His body when He died on the cross, made the final offerings God required based on Old Testament Law. Jesus became the final offering of all these requirements. Therefore, under the New Covenant, we are not required to make offerings. Selah.

Jesus fulfilled ALL the Law and the Prophets, therefore, there are no required offerings for us who are under the New Covenant. These are fighting words for those who love to do works. But I am not picking a fight, I am state a truth, the Lord burned in my spirit this morning, Jesus is the all-in-one offering there are no longer offering requirements. What then is the reason for us giving anything under the New Covenant? Are you saying we are not to give anything?

Under the Old Covenant it was a requirement, but when you see what Jesus did in His death on the cross, fulfilling ALL the requirements of the Law, it will produce in you a response based on what you understand. Our level of response is equal to our measure of understanding. We will give more out of response than we ever would of under requirement. You are not required to give anything, but when you understand who Jesus is, your response will reflect your understanding. I worship as a response, I give as a response, I obey as a reponse, for I have seen Him, heard Him and am daily getting to know Him. I can’t help but have a generous response. It’s not a sacrifice, it is a genuine response. We reveal much in our response for it is not a requirement, it’s our heart!

I was invited to a Tribe Night yesterday and it is a gathering of women from a variety of backgrounds, different ages, and vast experiences. We gathered to talk, laugh, eat and we learned new things about one another. The home we were in was peaceful, the people were delightful and the whole experience was such a joy. I will be doing that again with them, for sure. But this one statement was made and it had me thinking. The statement was, what is your favorite Bible verse? I love the word of God so to pick a favorite, or life verse was hard for me, so I was glad they didn’t go around the room and ask us to share ours, because I had no answer. One lady said, Deuteronomy 12:20 and she said, this will tell you a lot about me. Here is what it says, “When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.” She is a professed Gentile and her husband is a Jew. We laughed and laughed as she shared her love for meat and is so thankful for that verse.

This morning, the Lord and I found my favorite Bible verse or my life verse if you will. “Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases” (Psalm 115:3). Yes, this is my favorite verse, because the Lord has allowed me the honor of knowing who He is and I trust Him implicitly. I know without a doubt that He is always doing good; He always wants to heal; He loves to save; and He is always loving and truthful. I have no fear of God being in control; of God deciding what is best for me; of where, when and how He wants me to live, move and have my being. He is God and I am here to serve, love and worship Him and I am honored to do so. As I was praying this verse this morning, my heart swelled with gratitude that He does whatever He pleases with me, with nations, with leaders, with families, with everything. It is so comforting knowing I don’t have to know everything or control anything or anyone, not even God. This is my favorite, life verse, and why, I would love to hear yours and thank you Tammy Smith for inviting me to Tribe Night, I love you fiercely.

Clues, hints, hidden treasures in the midst of everyday reading. They are there hidden in plain sight. We read right past them until the Holy Spirit highlights them. But when the light shines on a verse, a paragraph, a person, it catches our attention for God has something to say about it. I hope this has happened to you, because when God is your teacher, school is so much fun.

Today I was reading Acts 21 and verse 26 caught my attention, “Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself along with them, went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.” On first read this verse does not seem worthy of popping out, but because God breathed on it there is something there I never saw before. Maybe you have, but I didn’t until right now.

We are 21 chapters into the book of Acts and this verse tells us the Temple in Jerusalem was still standing and the people were still doing animal sacrifices. This is huge, for the final sacrifice for sin died on a cross before the book began, now 21 chapters later they are still doing animal sacrifices in the Temple? This is huge. There are many things that happen in the world, events, prophetic declarations, prophetic acts, dates, many things and they change everything in that moment, but so often we just go on with life like nothing happened. They did not alter their life according to the death of Jesus Christ, they still sacrificed animals, but what about us? What changes did we make after experiencing revival; revelation in the word; or a relationship? Those moments were markers that said, I am not going back to who I was before that event, that moment, that marker.

I wonder how many of us are still operating, like the Jews did, as though Jesus did not become the final sacrifice for sin and stop making sacrifices? How many people since being touched by the power of God in revival no longer are religious? How many since being married have no longer lived like they are single? Markers in our life are lines we are never to cross back over. I pray you keep moving forward, advancing the kingdom, no going back.

Yesterday was a powerful day, it was Tuesday in the second month on the twenty-second day in the two thousand twenty second year of the Lord. That is seven two’s. For you that know biblical numbers, seven is the number of completion and the Lord spoke to me yesterday and said, today is the end of the works of the flesh and the beginning of the works of the spirit. I saw two doors, one was shutting and the other was being opened. This is a nod to Isaiah 22:22 from the Lord which says, whatever I shut is shut and whatever I open is opened. When God shuts something down, no one can open it back up. In the spirit this happened yesterday and it will manifest in the natural.

God always has an answer for the works of the flesh, but first we must know what works of the flesh He is talking about. The works of the flesh are many but can be summed up in one word, violence. Violence is not a word we would attach to the works of the flesh, but remember Jesus said, “The kingdom of God suffers violence…(Mt. 11:12); the kingdom of God suffers when the works of the flesh are evident. Then in Genesis 6 it says, “Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them;” Violence is how the Bible describes the works of the flesh, so what is God’s solution for violence?

God answers the works of the flesh with a covenant of peace. In Isaiah 54 it says, “For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken, Says the LORD who has compassion on you.” When you see or hear of the works of the flesh, open your ears and eyes for God is making a covenant of peace with us to deal with the works of the flesh He calls violence.