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Have you ever asked for something, got what you asked for and then after further consideration realized you should not have asked for what you originally asked for? We all have done this. In the moment we think we want one thing, only later to find out we didn’t really want what we thought we wanted so badly in the moment we asked for it.

Israel told the prophet Samuel they wanted a king, despite Samuel warning them they did not know what they were asking for, but they gave three reasons why they wanted a king. “And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 1. that we also may be like all the nations, and 2. that our king may judge us and 3. That our king will go out before us and fight our battles.” (1 Samuel 8)

Samuel the prophet told them the Lord wants to be your king and they said, NO! We want an earthly king. Oh friends, how often do we want from men what God has already said He wants to be for us? More often than we will ever admit. We ask for things we think we want, but we end up getting what we never wanted.

God wanted them to be a different kind of nation; they wanted to be like all the other nations. God wanted to be judge of them; they wanted to be judged by men. God wanted to fight their battles for them; they wanted a man to fight their battles for them. A man became their god and in becoming so, God was no longer the one they leaned on or depended on.

Friends, it is subtle, it is sneaky, and it is serious to ask for a man to be your king, when God has already declared He is your King of kings and Lord of lords. If we need to repent of anything personally, corporately and nationally it is for asking God to give us a king, when He is our King. We need leaders, we need authority, we need men, but a king, nope, we have a King and His name is Jesus.

The other day I was walking into a location to meet a friend for coffee and I saw a man cutting cinder blocks with a power saw. I walked by, took notice and thought, I had never saw anything like that before. With ease he was using this saw blade to cut through those cement blocks. This morning in prayer the Lord said, “It is time to change the blade”.

Christianity and prayer movements have been using one blade called breakthrough, but God is changing the blade to saw through. Some strongholds don’t break, they don’t bend, they don’t burn, some strongholds must be sawed through. In prayer this morning the Lord showed me rebar in the spirit as a stronghold.

Rebar is short for reinforcement bar or reinforcing bar, known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement; is a tension device added to concrete to form reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension.

The strongholds God is cutting down demands a blade that can cut through rebar and cement. What I saw in the spirit was rebar that was cemented in people’s soul which went back to childhood. The rebar is the stronghold that has been holding the lie in place for many many years.

The blade must change in prayer if we are going to be successful at cutting through the rebar and the cement in order to set people free from their strongholds of lies they can’t stop believing.

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.”

God is giving us a new blade to use in prayer so we can saw through the rebar which is a stronghold and the cement which is holding the rebar in place, so we can be set free from the stronghold of lies that are hindering us from the freedom Christ has come to give us. It’s time to change the blade we use in prayer.

The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me about how familiar people are with God and how casually they treat Him. Many treat God so casually they decide whether they want to obey God or not; they choose how they want to treat people created in God’s image; they decide if they want to raise their hands, sing or not in church; shoot they decide whether or not they even want to pray. The spirit of familiarity has bred a generation of people who have treated God causally.

This morning I was reading 1 Samuel 6:20 “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God?” The people were struck by the fear of God and recognized the power of God, which is what produced this statement they said about God. A church that does not operate in the power of God not only produces a powerless people, it creates a casual Christianity that keeps us familiar with God.

The Holy Spirit said to me moments ago, “When people treat God casually they become a casualty.” I had to look up the definition of casualty and what I found is this, “A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion.” We have many casualties in the body of Christ, because we have treated God casually.

Friends, familiarity with God has bred a generation that does not honor God, does not obey God, does not worship God, does not respect God’s word or His ways, or His commands. We have become so comfortable with God we think God approves of everything we do and say. Our treatment of God casually has created many casualties. We must repent for treating God so casually, He is God, we are not.

The season has changed, but not instantly, rather is changing continually. This has nothing to do with weather, circumstances or current realities. The season has changed has to do with a decree from heaven to the earth.

The sackcloth is being removed layer by layer. The tears are being bottled and wiped from our cheeks. The pain of the past is slowly giving way to the joy of a bright future. This is not a quick process, but it is a process that has been set in motion by the spirit of God.

The cooing of doves, the chirping of birds, the bubbling brook, the leaves rustling in the wind. If you listen to creation, you can hear it, the season has changed. The days of mourning are giving way to the days of rejoicing. The funeral dirge is giving way to the wedding song.

“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” (Psalm 96)

Our song is our steering wheel directing us in the way we should go. Sing my friends sing, sing a new song unto the Lord. Sing a new song over your family, over your friends, over your community, over your city, over your nation. Sing, sing, sing.

It may not look like it yet, but the season has changed and the manifestation of that change will be seen and we are being invited to sing a new song unto the Lord, for He has done marvelous things.

I took this picture while driving the other day and the Lord said, the sun is breaking through the clouds, can you see the change?

Words are powerful. They get stuck in our minds, lodged in our hearts, roll around in our heads, heal our souls. We sing them, we speak them, we write them, we think them. Proverbs says, the power of life and death is in the tongue. James says, the tongue is the smallest member of the body but has the most power. Words are eternal.

Words also change over time, phrases take on new meanings, so when we hear something we assume it means what we have learned it to mean. However, when God speaks, if we assume we know what He is talking about we may miss what He is saying.

The Lord spoke to me the other day the word forgive and said, “Forgiveness is pouring salt in a wound.” I said to the Lord, pouring salt in a wound is adding insult to injury, then the Holy Spirit said, “Not originally, look it up.” So I did and what I found made total sense why the Lord said, “Forgiveness is pouring salt in a wound.”

Originally, before medication was so readily available, they would pour salt in a wound, for salt acted as an anticeptic, anti-bacterial, anti-viral medicinal agent. Pouring salt in a wound actually healed the wound. How we went from pouring salt in a wound as a medicinal act, to it adding insult to injury I am not sure. But what I do know, is that when we forgive someone we are actually pouring salt in their wound and healing them.

We hurt people out of our own woundedness, so when we forgive people we pour salt in their wound and it heals them. Makes me wonder if this why Jesus said in Matthew 5 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” We are called to be ones who forgive others by pouring salt in their wound for their healing.

One of the primary tactics of the enemy is to either use your mouth or shut your mouth. The mouth is the primary vessel the enemy uses against God’s people.

When I lived in Malaysia for nine years, the enemy silenced me, he literally put his hand over my mouth and made me believe I was dying. Some circumstances arose that sought to confirm I was dying, but they proved to be lying signs and wonders.

The enemy has put his hand over many a people’s mouth, but God says, you are not dead, you are not breathless, you are fully alive. While the enemy is covering your mouth, the Lord is laying on top of you, eye to eye, mouth to mouth and hand to hand. Your body is warm, but you have not begun to breath on your own yet.

2 Kings 4 speaks of Elisha the prophet and this is what it says, “When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm. Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.”

The Lord is saying to you today, your body is warm, but your mouth is still shut by the enemy so you are about sneeze, sneeze and sneeze again. Sneeze means violently forcing air out through the nasal passage while the cavity of the mouth is shut off. I am telling you, the enemy has his hand over your mouth, but God is laying on you and you are about to sneeze and every virus in you is coming out of you in Jesus name. Sneeze friends sneeze, there is breath inside of you!!!!

What are we missing? What is the secret ingredient that makes it all come together? What is that one thing that binds, holds, humbles, calibrates, exposes, and gives us that which we are missing? Jesus told us the one thing we are missing is love. He said everything can be summed up in two commandments, love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself. Is it any wonder this is the one thing we are missing in our homes, our churches, our friendships, our ministries, our companies, our cities, our countries?

The enemy could care less how much money you have or don’t have. He is not interested in how much you pray and how good you preach. He is not even moved by your gift, your calling, your destiny, your dreams, your desires or your ideas. There is one goal of the enemy and that is to cause your love to grow cold. His goal is to give you reasons to not give nor receive love.

1 Corinthians 13 says, if you have all these other things, but have not love, you are nothing. Love is the only goal and if you are a lover, all these things you desire will be added to you. The challenge is we do not evaluate ourselves to see if we are speaking in love, acting in love, or if our motive is love.

We take a lot of tests, to know who we are, but if we don’t take the love test, it doesn’t matter how talented, gifted or skilled you are. If you have not love, you are nothing. Let’s take the test…”Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.” (1 Cor. 13)

This is not about marriage but about every relationship. Are you a lover? Only you and God know if you pass the test, but if you don’t it is time to return to your first love ❤️.

The nations are the legacy of Jesus (Psalm 2), we must come into alignment with God’s assignment for the nations. A friend said to me the other day, “Opinions can become the seed bed of deception.” Friends there are so many opinions about what is happening right now and honestly, our opinions are formed and fashioned by what we have been taught, heard or studied. God is not being moved by our opinions, He is moving in the nations.

Our invitation is to come into alignment with God’s assignment for the nations. We may not understand or ever agree, but if we want to not miss the hour of our visitation, we need to be still and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10).

While in prayer this morning, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Josiah’s reforms are happening in America. America needs reformation because of the deformation and the defamation that has taken place.” Josiah’s reforms are found in 2 Chronicles 34; deformation means an alteration of form for the worst; and defamation means an act of injuring another’s reputation by any slanderous communication either written or oral.

I said, wow, yes Lord, we need a reformation because of our deformation and defamation as a nation. God is bring a reformation to our nation and the nations. We are seeing this happening swiftly with the stroke of a pen, similar to what Josiah did in 2 Chronicles 34 “He began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.”

We need this reformation in order to heal our deformation and for us to be forgiven of our defamation. Thank you Lord for the reformation you are bringing our nation. I want to be alignment with your assignment.

Have you ever thought about who we are as people? Have you ever noticed we pray for deliverance and then when it comes we don’t believe it? Have you ever asked yourself why you are so suspicious of the deliverer God is using to rescue you? The irony of it all is that we are exactly like Israel of old.

Exodus 3 says, “Then the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Israel prayed from Egypt to be delivered from their oppressors, God comes down in a burning bush, speaks to Moses to become their deliverer for God and the people don’t want Moses to deliver them. But thanks be to God, that Moses didn’t care if the people wanted him to deliver them, God wanted Moses to deliver them and so they were going to be delivered from their taskmasters.

Exodus 3 says it this way, “And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me (Yahweh), and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you (Moses) to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Thank God He hears our cry, answers our prayer and doesn’t let us ruin the deliverance we prayed for because we don’t recognize the day of our visitation. Friends, I love you, but we are being delivered from an enemy we have prayed to be delivered from and honestly it doesn’t matter if you like who God chose to deliver us or not. We are being delivered because God has heard our prayers and I am thankful. Bye bye Egypt!

The people of God are both Jew and Gentile, they are one new man in Christ Jesus. This one new man is called the bride of Christ, she is who He is coming to earth for. She is who will reign with Him on earth as in heaven. This is a mystery of which we have not begun to understand the depths of, but even on the surface, her call to be a wife is undeniable. He is the bridegroom and we are His wife.

Proverbs 31:10-12 we must recognize this is not one woman, but the one new man, the bride of Christ. “Who could ever find a wife like this one— she is a woman of strength and mighty valor! She’s full of wealth and wisdom. The price paid for her was greater than many jewels. Her husband has entrusted his heart to her, for she brings him the rich spoils of victory. All throughout her life she brings him what is good and not evil.”

This morning in prayer the Lord spoke to me the words, “Propelled into prosperity”. Propeller’s are found on both boats and aircraft. They release a thrust horizontally both through water and air. (When wind meets water is a word God gave me back in November).

Isaac Newton’s Law of Motion opened up understanding which led to the building of the propeller. It is said that when pressure is high the speed is slow, but when pressure is low the speed is high. Selah. When I read that, I heard the Holy Spirit say, “There is an acceleration happening because there is a low pressure system coming into the earth realm”.

When we are under intense or high levels of pressure it actually slows us down, but when we are in low pressure situations it speeds us up. Acceleration is here and coming, because of the low pressure system the kingdom of God has released to earth.

Many have been under high pressure, but I declare to you, low pressure is here and coming and you will accelerate in areas that have been slowed by the high pressure situations you have been in. The Lord says, “We are being propelled into prosperity.” We as His bride are going to bring him the spoils of victory!!!