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The enemy is stealthy in his strategy against us individually; against us corporately; and against us nationally. One of his stealthy strategies is that of silencing us. Most people do not see silence as a strategy of the enemy, but if he can steal your voice and get you to be silent he can work his plan in your life, in a corporate bodies life or in a nations life. Yahweh does not shut you up, He encourages you to speak up, speak out, sing, shout, praise, decree, pray, prophesy, all words the Lord uses to say, speak my child, speak.

Psalm 94:16-17 says, “Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness? If the LORD had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.”

One of the evidences of God moving in your life, in your corporate setting, in your nation is the breaking of the silence. The sounds that come out of nations reveals the Lord working in that nation. In Canada we hear the sound of trucks and truckers; in Australia we see the signs people are carrying; wherever you hear a sound, you are seeing God helping that nation. While the enemy will use silence to control, the Lord will use sound to liberate. Listen for the sound coming out of your life, out of your corporate setting, out of your nation. The sound is evidence of the Lord’s help.

I lived in Malaysia for nine years, I am married to an African and I am American. I learned very quickly while living in Malaysia that going to visit another country is fun, but living in another country is work. My American culture was not identifiable to me when I lived in America, but when I married an African and lived in Malaysia my culture that felt so normal was now evident to me in ways I never saw before. The challenge I went through was my unwillingness to lay down my culture in order to live in another culture. Malaysia was not going to become American for me, so I had to either submit to their culture of live frustrated. Honestly, I lived frustrated for at least three of the nine years I lived there, because I did not want to conform to their culture.

I look back on this and laugh at my unwillingness to budge, for I created for myself unnecessary challenges, but once I surrendered to their culture I began to enjoy the people, the foods, the smells, the culture, I even enjoyed and benefited from that which used to frustrate me. The same is true in the kingdom of God, we try to bring our culture, American culture, African culture, Australian culture, Asian culture, European Culture, Canadian culture, into the kingdom of God and we get frustrated because God will not change His culture to fit us. If we are going to live in the kingdom we must submit to its culture. Once you do, you will enjoy the benefits of that culture. The kingdom culture is the best culture I have ever lived in by far, I hope you will submit to it and then you can benefit from it.

Proverbs 2:21-22 “For those who live right will remain in the land and those with integrity will endure here. But not the wicked they will be forced out and banned from this promised land, and those who deal in deceit will be plucked up like the weeds.” The Bible is filled with the culture of the kingdom, today in Proverbs we learn the kingdom is a culture of integrity. I love the kingdom culture because I have conformed to it.

Today is the first day of February on the Gregorian calendar, at sundown today is the first day of Adar on the Hebrew calendar. The aligning of the calendars on the same day is significant, because it speaks of an alignment of time that is happening in the spirit which is manifesting in the natural. We are living in the days of divine timing and in order to understand these days in which we live, we must be worshippers of Yahweh, Yeshua, the only true God.

Proverbs 1:7 says, “Let us begin. The worship of the Eternal One, the one True God, is the first step toward knowledge. Fools however, do not fear God and cannot stand wisdom and guidance.” If we want to be people that understand the times in which we live, we must be worshippers of God. Worship includes but is not limited to singing on Sunday morning in church. Worship is hearing and obeying the voice of God. Worship is spending time in the Word of God and ministering to God. Worship is prayer and praise. Worship is investing in our relationship with God, every day.

Christians have been taught the importance of ministering to people, but how many Christians are ministering to God? Ministering to God is our first call as a royal priesthood. Priests first call is to minister to God and out of that ministry we minister to people at work, school, church, the marketplace, anywhere we go. It all starts with worshipping God, ministering to God. The reason we lack wisdom is not because we are not intelligent, but because wisdom comes from ministering to God, worshipping God.

Worship God and you will learn wisdom, worship God and you will understand the times, worship God and you will come alive and stay alive. The key is to be a worshipper of God.

Have you ever wondered why people love to be in the midst of a fight? Is it the adrenaline rush of fear that makes people feel powerful? Is it the sense of being part of something bigger than themselves? Whatever it is, people love to fight for something, to feel like they did something to bring about that change, that victory, that breakthrough.

It amazes me how much peace has been forfeited for the love of the fight. Wounds, scars, memories, trauma, triggers, all come from being in the battle, but instead of backing away from the fight, we engage in it even more. What is it in us that wants to, needs to fight, rather than dwell with the Lord? Psalm 91:8-9 says, “You will only look on with your eyes And see the recompense of the wicked. For you have made the LORD, my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place.” If we are honest, we only fight because we love something about the fight, but if the Lord does not deal with the enemy our “fighting” is in vain.

Think about our hero’s in the faith, God did the fighting and they saw and engaged in the victory. Our mandate is to take dominion over that which God has already subdued. We are to keep the enemy under our feet not engage in battle with him. Then soon the God of peace will crush Satan under His feet, of whom we are are the body (Romans 16:20). Taking possession, holding the line, and keeping under our feet are all postures of victory, not fighting for something.

The enemy loves to get us in a fight, for it wears us out, freaks us out, and runs us out, but last time I checked, I am called to dwell, rest, remain, trust, hope, watch and stand in awe of Yahweh, who is King of kings and Lord of lords. I’m not wasting anything on the enemy not even a fight, I am pouring everything of me out on Him, who is worthy of it all. For praise is still my call and worship is where I see God defeat the enemy. He is victorious always.

One of the television shows I enjoy watching is Undercover Boss. My favorite thing is finding the gold in people, so when these bosses of major corporations go undercover in order to learn more about their company and changes they need to make for more profit, what they find is people. For an owner of a company, profit/loss margins are always on their mind, but when these bosses go undercover they discover real people with real needs. Then at the end of the show, they reveal themselves to the employees they engaged with during the show and end up giving those employees promotions, education, money, something the boss learned they needed. I love the reaction of the employees when they learn it was their boss they were working with unbeknownst to them and how shocked they are that their boss blessed them in the way they did. It’s a great show if you have never seen it.

This morning in prayer, the Lord showed me that He is an undercover boss. Jesus Christ, king of all creation, Lord of the earth, who was, who is and who forever will be God, became an undercover boss. Jesus Christ, God, put on flesh, but He never took off His divinity. He went undercover and came to earth to see what He could do to make life on earth better for us. He walked this earth as a man, He talked to people, He sat in synagogues, He went to weddings and funerals all as an undercover boss. But He didn’t stop there, He even died on a cross as an undercover boss. This is still a mystery to the Jews and is packed with truth we do not fully comprehed. He never ceased being God, in all of it. Then He rose from the dead and was taken up in a cloud, still as God.

Our undercover boss, Jesus Christ, didn’t come to earth to find out everything we are doing wrong, He came to interact with us as people. Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” He came, He saw and when He left He gave us gifts to bless us (Ephesians 4:8-12). To many Jesus is still not recognizable as God who came in the flesh, to others He is still not treated as boss, but He is still speaking, still moving, still revealing that He is God, for He is still an undercover boss, but now He is manifesting Himself as such.

Have you ever thought about how you can have an appetite for books, movies, television, news, Facebook, Instagram and the likes but no desire for the word of God? Have you ever wondered why you can make time to scroll to hear what others are doing but have no clue what the scroll of God is saying to you? Keeping us busy so we don’t stop and ask questions is a tactic of the enemy. When you are moving so fast you don’t ask questions that will expose his tactics in your life and therefore, you don’t realize it is the enemy that does not want you in the word, it is not you. Your spirit wants to hear the word of God, read the word of God, pray the word of God, for Jesus is the bread of life (John 6).

The voice of the enemy will come and say you don’t have time, but we all have the same amount of hours in a day, yet some people produce while others only consume. Some people create while others criticize. As born again believers, Christ in us is the hope of glory and He is wanting to commune with you in prayer, worship and especially His word. What is His reasoning behind this? Does Jesus want you to have another thing on your to do list? Absolutely not, the goal of Jesus for your life is freedom and He knows, just like the enemy knows, if you know the TRUTH, the TRUTH will set you free (John 8:32) and the enemy hates freedom. Therefore, the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) employs whatever tactic he can to keep you from the word of God, which is TRUTH, so you do not become free.

Freedom is an investment, freedom is an inside job, freedom is your choice. If you want to be free, invest in the TRUTH that will set you free, for the return on this investment is beyond anything you could ask or desire. It is for freedom that Christ wants to set you free and keep you free!

One of the ways we identify each other is by where we were born. In America it is directional. People will be identified as being born in the North, the South, the East or the West based on accent, attitude or even slang. In other countries people are identified by region, for example in my husband’s country they are identified as being Euroba, Ibu or River/Delta. In Malaysia people were identified by country of origin, Malay, Chinese, Indian, Phillipino, Bangladeshi or Westerner. We all carry identifying markers and distinctions.

We as believers are supposed to be identifiable to the world as not born of this world, but born of God. Psalm 87 says, “I shall mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me; Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia: This one was born there. But of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one were born in her; And the Most High Himself will establish her. The LORD will count when He registers the peoples, This one was born there.” If you have been born again, it is supposed to be said of you, this one was born there, born from above. John 3 says it this way, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.”

The question is do people recognize you as being born again? Can they tell by what you say, how you act, the attitude you have that you are born again? We as believers are to be of a different spirit just like Joshua and Caleb were. We are to see world events differently than unbelievers do; we are to do life differently; raise our children differently; treat our spouse, boss, co-workers and all authority differently. People should be able to see us and say, this one is born from there, not here!

If you could ask the Lord to give the church (believers) one thing, what would you ask for? I would ask for humility, because we think we know too much about God and His word. For the most part we are not open to hearing truth that will set us free, because we already learned what that scripture means, so there is no need to hear anything new about it. Humility is the gift the church needs for if we have humility it means we are teachable.

The more I read my bible, pray and worship, the more I realize how much I don’t know, how many doctrines of men I have been taught that are not biblical and how much people take scriptures out of context for their own personal use. One of the first things the Lord does when you humble yourself is He removes the doctrines of men and replaces it with the truth that sets you free.

Here is an example of a truth the Lord has taught me recently. I Corinthians 13:4-7 “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”…is not about marriage, but about ministry.

All of 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and 14 are about the gifts of the spirit working in the body of Christ in the church, there is no mention of marriage anywhere, yet this is our primary marriage verse. If we put these verses back in the context of ministry, not marriage, they make total sense, for what we lack in the ministry is love for one another while we are learning to operate together in the church in the gift God has given us. Humility makes us teachable so we can hear the truth about these verses and then we can be free!

As in the days of Noah…when these words are spoken many believers think Matthew 24, the second coming of Christ, the apocalypse, the end times, batten down the hatches, cover your head and hope you catch the rapture rocket to heaven. The words in the days of Noah invoke such fear in believers, but God is about to redeem those words for us today.

I was praying Psalm 85 this morning and when I prayed these words, “Lovingkindness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven. Indeed, the LORD will give what is good, And our land will yield its produce” (v. 10-12), the Lord said, IN THE DAYS OF NOAH! I knew it was a reference to Matthew 24, ,but it was life giving not fear producing. As I pressed in the Lord brought me back to Genesis 7.

Genesis 7:11 says, “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.” In Psalm 85 truth springs up and righteousness comes down, in Genesis 7 the deeps burst open and the floodgates open. My friends we are living in the days of Noah. Truth is springing up and the Righteous One has come down in human form. We are living in the days of Noah.

Isaiah 43:18-19 says it this way, ““Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it?” Truth is springing up can you hear it? Righteousness has and is coming down, can you not perceive it? We are living in the days of Noah and as Habakkuk said, “For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea” (2:14). We were born for these days and it is great to be alive!

If you don’t know, if you haven’t heard we have crossed the Jordan into the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey. This is not a natural location like it was for Israel, it is a location in the spirit in which believe it or not the church has crossed over into. If you listen to the language of believers, you hear words like community, family, manifestation and promises being fulfilled. This is evidence of the promised land life. But you will also hear of giants, enemy nations and battles, all part of the promised land. To some it may sound no different than life in the wilderness, but there are two distinct differences, one we are being led by Joshua’s not Moses’ and two we are in a land that is flowing with milk and honey not manna and water.

The leadership of Joshua is different than that of Moses, not wrong, just different. We will begin to see more and more Joshua leaders rise up with a revelation of Jesus Christ and a team approach to leadership not a one man show leadership. This shift will be signifcantly noticeable. The other change that will become more and more obvious is that we are about to eat a lot of honey. Proverbs 24 says it this way, “Revelation-knowledge is a delicacy, sweet like flowing honey that melts in your mouth. Eat as much of it as you can, my friend! For then you will perceive what is true wisdom, you future will be bright and this hope living within will never disappoint you.”

The book of Joshua is a manual for promised land life right now. If you can hear it there is prophetic understanding unfolding in this book that will show us what we are going to walk through now that we are in the promised land. Read it slowly and carefully, there is much to learn from this book. To get you started, we are currently at Gilgal, being circumcised/set apart/consecrated for this new land we have entered. (Joshua 5) The next thing I am watching for is Passover 5782/2022 which happens on April 15th. Joshua 5 says, “The very next day (after Passover), they ate for the first time food grown in Canaan-roasted grain and flatbread made without yeast. On that day, when they ate the produce of the land, the manna stopped falling from heaven. The Israelites never at manna again, but that year enjoyed the fruit of the land of Canaan.” I see a financial change of the likes we have never seen coming around Passover. Enjoy the promised land, we made it in!