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When I worked as an editor for a local newspaper, I learned that some people are keyboard critics and some are content creators. Most people are just casual observers, reading both the content and the critique. I think it is healthy to critique content others produce, for two reasons, one it helps the content creator solidify what they are producing; two it reminds them why quality content is needed.

Keyboard critics are those who do not write any substantive content, but rather spend their time reading what the content creators are writing, producing, creating and they believe they are called to correct it, critique it or correct it with their opinion. Once you, as a content creator, recognize a keyboard critic, there is no need to keep defending yourself, for the content will speak for itself.

One example in scripture of this is when Paul is addressing prophesy being spoken inside the church. He says, when one prophet speaks, two or three other prophets should judge that prophesy (1 Corinthians 14:29-30). Why did Paul say prophets in the church should judge the prophecy spoken in the church? The answer to this will vary but one reason is because prophets understand prophecy.

When we are critiquing what we have never created, we are doing it out of our outside opinion rather than our insider understanding. People that have planted churches understand church planting; people who are professional athletes understand professional sports; people who have been in management understand managing. We need to stay in our lane, for it is easy to be a critic but it takes time, energy and commitment to be a content creator, no matter the field you create in. May we as the church be creators, builders, edifiers, not critics.

Good morning CHURCH,

Last night I was at a women’s gathering in a smaller city in Tennessee. During worship, I saw right above the raised hands of the women, water. It was still water; it was dark (deep) water; and there was a light mist coming off of the water. My eyes were eye level to the water in this vision, and as I was looking at the water, I heard the voice of the Lord say, “I AM THE GOD WHO HOVERS!” It was not a loud voice, but it was an authoritative voice. I was not scared, but I was brought instantly into the God Who Hovers.

I stood in awe of what I was seeing, but I was awestruck by the voice I heard. No time in my life has God ever declared a name of His to me like this. I know His many names in the word and I have called Him by them many times. But this was different, it was as though He was wanting to be known as this, THE GOD WHO HOVERS. Worship finished and the program moved on, but I was undone, unable to transition out of the experience quickly. I sat down in order not to be a distraction, but I was enraptured in the words of the Lord, I Am the God Who Hovers.

Genesis 1:2 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Hover means, “to hang fluttering in the air or on the wing; to remain suspended over a place or object” (Merriam-Webster dot.com). God is hovering over His people, He is closer than we realize and He is not far from us, He is actually Christ in us. He has a name He is releasing to us, The Lord says, “I AM THE GOD WHO HOVERS!” May you encounter, enter into and engage with, the God Who Hovers.

There are a myriad of prophecies we have yet to occupy, because we have been taught they are not fulfilled yet. If we believe they are yet to come, rather than understand they have already begun we have access to them but we have not taken possession of them. Church we are sitting on a pile of prophecies that have been fulfilled but we have not occupied because we have been taught they are still to come. We have been deceived to believe in a future fulfillment that has already been fulfilled. As our eyes are opened to what is already available to us, because of what Jesus Christ did for us in his death, burial and resurrection an army of dry bones is going to arise and take the land like never before.

Remember the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. That means, Jesus is the fulfillment of prophecy in more ways than we give Him credit for. Here is just one of the many prophecies He fulfilled in the Old Testament, it is not yet to be fulfilled, it already has been fulfilled. Daniel 7:26 “The court will sit for judgment, and his (Satan’s) dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.” How do we know this has been fulfilled, because 1 John 3:8 says, “The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.” The appearance of the Son of God on earth in the flesh, destroyed the works of the devil and the court Daniel speaks of happened at Calvary, but we would not know this if we did not put Daniel 7 with the cross of Calvary.

With this prophetic word being fulfilled, what does that mean for us to occupy. Daniel 7:27 answers that question, listen to this “Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.” We get to occupy the kingdom of God on earth, when we learn to do this because of what Jesus did, we will cease to let the enemy tell us he is someone he is not or that he has power he does not have.Jesus said, “ALL authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me…” (Matthew 28). It’s a done deal, stop listening to, obeying and being intimidated by a defeated enemy and start possessing the kingdom that will never end. This kingdom of heaven is upon us, its time to occupy!

People of God, Body of Christ, Church, the Lord is calling to us in a powerful way. He doesn’t need us He wants us to partner with Him in what He is doing right now. It’s as though I can sense His excitement for us to join Him as He is doing such a powerful deliverance of nations right now. If you have ever wanted to be on a God adventure, your time is right now!

This week the Lord has been calling to the church by various names. Monday He said, “Deborah, awake and sing!” Church you are Deborah.
Tuesday He said, “Esther, arise and ask!” Church you are Esther.
Wednesday He said, “Jael, invite and strike!” Church you are Jael.

I didn’t post anything about Jael yesterday, for I was threshing out what the Lord was saying, but if you read Judges 4-5 you will learn that Sisera was the commander of Jabin, the king of Canaanan’s army. Sisera, had 900 iron chariots and oppressed Israel for 20 years. When I read that the Lord highlighted 20 to me and oppressed. 2020 was a year of oppression for the nations. It has let up a little in 2021, but the spirit of Sisera is still among us, so it was time for Jael to invite Sisera, a tired commander, into her tent for some rest and when she did, he fell asleep and she struck him with a tent peg.

Church this is not a physical war we are in, this is spiritual. The weapons we fight with are not carnal, they are spiritual (2 Corinthians 10:3-5). The spirit of Sisera is a stronghold of oppression and it must come down. Today, Dutch Sheets on his Give Him 15 spoke about STRIKE THE TARGET. Church, strike the target, you are Jael.

Psalm 68:21 “Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies.”

Feelings, emotions are energy in motion. Negative emotions are negative energy in motion, this is why negative emotions are time wasters. Think about it for a minute, what good came out of negative emotions? Did they produce anything of value for you? Now think about what did those negative emotions take from you? Negative emotions are theives and robbers and we must stop them at the gate, so they cannot enter our minds, our homes, our churches, our regions, our nations.

Declarations are words we have been given as weapons to stop the enemy called negative emotions at the gate. Whether we woke up with these feelings of negativity, or circumstances created them as we went through our day. When you find them arising in you or even around you, find a declaration in the word of God and decree what you want to see. Use the authority God has given you to decree, not waste time letting negative emotions rule you. For just like negative emotions, decrees change the atmosphere for our words are powerful.

Here is one decree I have used and I encourage you to add to your arsenal of decrees, so when the enemy called negative emotions arises, you can shoot it down with a decree. Decree Judges 5:21 “O my soul, march on with strength!” It may take you saying it more than once, but I promise you, your decree will change you and the atmosphere in which you stand. “O my soul, march on with strength!” Deborah decreed it, Israel decreed it, and we can decree it, no matter what caused those negative emotions to arise. Don’t give in to them, decree “My soul, is marching on with strength!” Decree and watch them flee.

The Lord has had me praying various places in the word of God, for He said, “there are many prayers people in the Bible prayed that are needed today.” I was in Judges 5 today and the Lord spoke to me about the war at the gate, but the warriors and commanders are without weapons. The scripture goes on to say, the way to get weapons in the hands of the warriors is to sing.

Then this afternoon, I was listening to an audio book on Declarations by Jane Harmon and she brought up Queen Esther. When she was speaking, the Lord said to me, He is needing the Esther’s to arise and ask! The church is always personified as a female in scripture, so when God says, Esther’s arise and ask; Deborah’s awake and sing! It is not a call to women only, it is a call to the church of Jesus Christ.

I declare to the church, you are a Deborah, AWAKE AND SING; you are an Esther, ARISE AND ASK! It is time for all timidity, insecurity, uncertainty to break off of the body of Christ and for the church to AWAKE, SING, ARISE, ASK, for the Lord is waiting for us to partner with Him to defeat once and for all this enemy that is at the gate. He has already declared the victory, now we must apprehend it with the confidence of Deborah and Esther.

On Friday, Dutch Sheets in His Give Him 15 broadcast recounted Chuck Pierce’s prophetic word he had given in Tennessee the previous weekend. Then on Friday night in Florida Dutch was speaking at the ROAR conference and he shared the prophetic word again that included the date October 18th. Dutch reinterred October 18th was Monday, today. As Dutch was sharing Chuck’s word he said, “The plug is being pulled…”. The Holy Spirit reminded me of a dream I had in light of this word. Here is my dream…

In 2016 I had a dream that I was in an Old Navy store down on the Plaza in Kansas City, MO with my parents. I went to pay for a red sweater I found in the clearance section and while at the register to pay, I saw an antique circuit fall to the off position and the lights went out in the store. I headed outside to see if the lights went out in any other store, but once outside I crossed the street and to my left was a cemetery and I heard them playing the song Taps. End of dream.

I told my dream to Camber Cleland Otto and Autumn Darden and a couple days later on a Sunday morning our church had an unexpected and unexplainable power outage. They could not get the power back on so my Pastor opened a side door to let daylight in and preached with a flashlight. Any there that day will remember it. Camber was sitting a couple rows behind me and tapped my shoulder, Lisa it’s your dream. I have sat on this dream for five years, so for the Holy Spirit to remind me of it was interesting in light of Chuck Pierce’s Word, pulling the plug on the circuit and then recircuitting.

The reason I share this is because Colin Powell, a 4 star General died today October 18th, henceforth the song Taps in my dream after the lights went out. Just some puzzle pieces to ponder. Chuck Pierce said when the circuit was pulled out on October 18 a new circuit would be established and it would recircuit America. Is this 4 star General’s death a prophetic sign?

Nehemiah said it best in chapter 9…

“For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them. But they, in their own kingdom, With Your great goodness which You gave them, With the broad and rich land which You set before them, Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds. Behold, we are slaves today, And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty, Behold, we are slaves in it. Its abundant produce is for the kings Whom You have set over us because of our sins; They also rule over our bodies And over our cattle as they please,

So we are in great distress.”

But there is an army of intercessors around the world praying and God is answering with great compassion on us, out of His faithfulness so we join those in Nehemiah’s day and say…

“Now because of all this We are making an agreement in writing; And on the sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests.”

We are making a new covenant with God, saying we will follow you, where you go we go, what you say we say. It always starts with the leaders, this day, we say a new covenant with God is being made!

There is a window of opportunity that has opened for some and will open for many more. When this window opens a breeze will come in with two streams, one stream will be a fresh wind the other stream will be a familiar wind. As these two wind streams come in through the window of opportunity that is opening you are going to have a choice to make. Will you ride the wings of the familiar wind stream? Or will you lean in to the fresh wind stream? Both winds are blowing at this time through this window of opportunity that has opened. The wind you choose will determine whether you advance into the new thing God is doing or you go back to where you just came out of; or are just coming out of.

The Lord is always faithful to give us a choice, he will never force us to choose the fresh even though he knows that is His choice for us. The option of the familiar must be presented because rewards come from decisions that we make. Some of you have already sensed the winds of familiar blowing and you are resisting them knowing that the fresh wind is in the atmosphere and you can smell it. There are many characteristics of the familiar wind that are easily recognizable; but the fresh wind is blowing as well and though the path is unclear, you will know it is a fresh wind because the air you breathe will cause your dreams to soar.

I have chosen the fresh wind, I’m leaning in and though there are strong head winds blowing against my choice, I will not go back to the familiar, forward march I go.

I sense the answer to the bloods voice that’s crying out from the earth for all the injustices that have been done against it. I sense the bloods voice crying out for justice, will manifest in every kind of healing, for sickness is an injustice in our bodies and just like the land, we are earth made people and we are crying out as well.

With both the land and people crying out for justice from the sickness, the spirit of infirmity, the broken covenants, and every other injustice that has brought pain to the land into our lives, the Lord hears our prayers and is answering us. He is going to release a manifestation of healing in the heights and in the depths, in the streets and in the sanctuary‘s healing is going to manifest everywhere in a variety of ways. He’s going to heal hurts, he’s going to heal bodies, he’s going to heal relationships, he’s going to heal finances, he’s going to heal brokenness, he’s going to heal companies, he’s going to heal educational systems, he’s going to heal cultures, he’s going to heal nations.

As I was praying with the book of Nehemiah this morning this is what I heard, this is what I saw, this is what I prayed for, and this I know is going to happen. Get ready for the manifestation of healing is going to completely change everything about us, our nation, our world. Remember Matthew 24 and all of the evidence that it speaks of are called birth pains. That means God is about to birth healing in the land. And every birth brings great rejoicing, people are about to smile again, laugh again, enjoy one another again.