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In a world that fights over opinions, doctrines, money, microphones, and any other thing you can think of, I am so thankful that the presence of God is a safe place. The presence of God is truly a strong tower, a refuge place, a selah for the soul, body and spirit. The best thing about the presence of God is that is accessible anywhere you are at anytime you want it, but you must lean it, let your guard down, absorb the atmosphere and let the tears fall. The presence of God is like a rest stop on the highway we call life. My husband says, One touch from heaven changes everything. I would like to add to that, one deep breath in the presence of God recalibrates everything.

I was praying Psalm 87 this morning and it says, “On the holy mount stands the city he founded; the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one were born in her; for the Most High himself will establish her.” As I leaned into these verses the presence of God wafted into my room, I shut my eyes and tears began to fall not out of sadness, but out of sheer delight that God dwells with humanity and His presence is knowable, feelable.

We are the city of God, the dwelling place of His presence. In His presence all arguments, all defenses, all striving stops. We rest when we He is near, we see clearer when He is near, we love deeper when He is near. As I inhaled His presence this song came out of my mouth…”Your presence is heaven to me!” We have access to heaven on earth, for His presence is dwelling here with us, just lean in, let your guard down, share your heart with Him, there is nothing more satisfying than the presence of God.

Who Do You Follow?

Have you ever stopped to think about who you follow? I know you have heard the phrase, “Follow the money”; or you have heard people say, “I followed my kids”; or maybe you have even been told you are to “Follow your husband”; and some churches even quote the Apostle Paul and say “Follow me as I follow Christ”. So many choices of who to follow, but the question the Holy Spirit spoke to me this morning was, “Who do people follow?”

As I pondered this question, I realized people follow celebrities, sports teams, the stock market, the news, but how many people are answering the call Jesus gave the disciples when He said, “Come Follow Me”. We have the desire and ability inside of us to “follow” someone, but the challenge is when we follow anyone but the Lord, we will end up hurt, disappointed and mad if the person we followed does not lead us to where we were created to go.

Jesus said of the disciples in Luke 5 “When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him (Jesus).” It goes on to say in the same chapter, “After that He (Jesus) went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, Follow Me! And Levi left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.”

People leave everything behind for a job, for grandkids, for a spouse, but who is willing to leave everything behind to follow Jesus? No where in the word of God are we called to follow a spouse, a pastor, a celebrity, money, a job, there is only one person we are called to leave everything behind and follow and that is Jesus Christ. We get into so many challenges in life all because we are trying to follow someone or something other than Jesus. Friends, He is the One who created you, called you and knows exactly what will satisfy you. You know how to follow, the challenge is you have never left everything behind to follow Him. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose if only you would follow Him. I hear His voice calling out, “Follow Me!”

Two of my favorite things are the word of God and the people of God. They are also the two things I value the highest. I was listening to Johnny Enlow on Elijah Streams yesterday and he was speaking into the current pulpit cleansing we are seeing happening in the body of Christ right now. I loved how he shared truth with grace about the situation currently happening in this historic hour.

For you that know me, you know I am always listening for an echo in order to hear the establishment of what God is saying or doing through prophetic voices. This morning, I was praying Psalm 82 and the echo was so loud it was undeniable. Here is the words of God establishing what the man of God, Johnny Enlow was saying. Psalm 82:1-4 “God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah. Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

I don’t look for scriptures to support an idea, thought or argument, I believe the Holy Spirit is the perfect point guard (basketball term) and He passes the word right in front of us as we are walking with Him. As I prayed this psalm today, I knew the Lord was revealing for the sake of healing; eradicating wickedness and establishing righteousness; and pulpit cleansing for the sake of pasture healing.

We will see more summer cleansing as the months go by. Psalm 82:5 says, “All the foundations of the earth are shaken.” If you know anything about foundation repair, it is needed for the building to be secure. God is repairing the foundations of the church and its leaders, for we have had cracks for many years. It may get messy, but the mess is for the making of a church without spot or wrinkle for that is what the Lord is worthy of. This is the Lord’s doing and He is a master builder, we can trust He knows what He is doing.

Money….everyone worldwide wants more money. I lived in Malaysia for nine years and whenever I would encounter a Malaysian and they heard I was an American, they would say, America, I want to go to America. I asked them why do you want to go to America? The answer consistently was because Americans are rich. I smiled every time, because I realized rich is a perspective and if you are a taxi driver in Malaysia who rides a motorbike to work, Americans are rich. But if you are an American living in Malaysia as a missionary living on $500 a month, you are not considered rich by your home country, America.

Snatch thieves, robbers, even watch any court show on television and you realize people are in pursuit of money at any cost. It is heartbreaking to me on these court shows when you see family members in court over money. People, lie, steal, cheat all for money. People apply for disability when they are not disabled all for money. People stay on food stamps long after they need them all for money. People have credit card debt over their heads all because of money. Can you imagine life apart from money’s noose around your neck? Can you even begin to dream of the freedom of a life not worried about money? Most can’t. My husband says, people spend their health to get wealth and then they have to spend their wealth to take care of their health. Oh friends, it was never God’s intent for us to live in pusuit of money.

Proverbs 21 says, “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.”

When we compromise our integrity for the sake of money it is two things: one a fleeting vapor, it is a chasing after the wind; two it is a trap that leads to death. Jesus said, “The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come to give you life and life abundantly.” (John 10:10) When you know your God is abundance, Your Father in heaven will help you, the snare of death has no power of you. Friends, we are not poor if we know the God of abundance. I am not rich because I am an American, I am rich because I am daughter whose Dad is the King of kings!!!!

Who told you the darkness is getting darker? Who told you the end is going to be death and destruction? Who told you that you want to be raptured out of here? Who said? Doctrines of men distort the word of truth. Doctrines of men must keep you afraid in order to control you. The gospel of the kingdom the word of truth, sets you free and will never seek to control you with fear. Our Father in heaven is not a fear monger who is trying to control you, He is a Father who loves you and wants to set you free. Our God is not insecure, He is Lord of everything. He does not need anything from us, but He receives gifts from us. Oh the wonder and majesty of our God, there is truly no one like Him. It is time to leave the doctrines of men and come into the kingdom of God.

I was reading 1 John this morning and on more than one occasion it says, “The world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 3:10) It does not say the earth is passing away, it does not say people are passing away, it does not say truth is passing away. Actually John makes it clear, darkness is diminishing not increasing and the world is passing away not the kingdom. The doctrines of men have taught us the end is going to be disaster, destruction, disease, and demise for people, but we are going to be raptured out of here so it won’t happen to us. What preacher of death and destruction wants to die or live during a tribulation? Not one! But they sure do scare people with their teachings and what is shocking is we sow financially into bad news and then wonder why we have little to no joy of the Lord.

Here is the truth, which is good news. The Hebrews never were waiting for life in the sweet bye and bye, they believed in eternal life on earth as it is in heaven. They believed in the light shining in the darkness and the darkness not being able to overcome it. They believed they were more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. They saw a resurrected Christ and they knew what we don’t, things are getting better because Christ rose from the dead not worst. Break out of the prison of men’s fear based theology and come into the kingdom of God that is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. There is abundant life in the kingdom of God!

Six to seven years ago, the Lord sent me on a prophetic adventure based on a headline dream a friend of mine had which said, “Higginsville Woman Found Dead”. How this headline turned into a prophetic adventure is a story in and of itself. In true God fashion it led to a multi-location declaration destination in which I was to find a certain location and make a Psalm 24 declaration. He told me when all 12 locations were visited and the Psalm 24 declaration was made at each location, it would unlock debt cancellation for the nation.

Jubilee is what the Lord told me to decree. I remember when I was at the final location in Bethesda, MD, making the Psalm 24 decree and when I said, it is finished, I made one more blow on the shofar and decreed Jubilee. This was the year 2019 when I completed this prophetic adventure. Now 5 years later it is 2024 and I am sent an article from a friend this morning that says, US-Saudi Petrodollar Pact Ends After 50 Years. I immediately say out loud, JUBILEE!!!! When you have history with God, when you do by obedience what you don’t understand in the moment, God remembers more than we do, so when an article like this is sent to me in 2024 (Psalm 24 year); the Lord winks at me in order to remind me, the prophetic adventure He sent me on was not in vain.

Friends, church, there is so much that goes on that we do not know. The news is 24 hours a day but the number of stories they share is few, so you hear the same story from different broadcasters all day long. But with God He gives you the news before it becomes news and then circles back and sends an echo to confirm what He told you was Him. Today is a circle back day for me and really good news for our nation as the Lord is decreeing Babylon is falling and Jubilee. I see debt cancellation for a nation and it started with my friend Autumn’s dream. God is moving in a reformation way that is changing everything and I am so excited. Jubilee is what I see.

What we are doing in any season of life flavors our reading of the Bible, that is why you can read the same scipture many times and get a new interpretation of what it means in that moment. I love how the word of God is living! I read a Proverb a day and today I was reading Proverbs 18 when something new jumped out. We know this verse well, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” Love what? Love it. What is the it?

These are questions I ask as I read and what the Holy Spirit showed me this morning is the “it” is the fruits of life or the fruits of death. So the question is, what fruits do we love and how do we know? We have to go to Galatians 5 to know the fruits of death and life. Here is what Paul said, “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” What fruits are you enjoying, eating, loving? What do you have a taste for?

Life and death are in the power of the tongue we have been taught, is words and that is true, but it is also taste. The tongue is how we taste things and the Holy Spirit is saying, what fruit tastes do you love? The fruits of death or the fruits of life? We know what we do and what we do shows us what we love the taste of. I know this means taking personal responsibility for our choices, but that is what maturity does. If you don’t like what you love, change lovers. It’s not easy, but it is doable and all I can say from experience is, the taste of the fruits of death are temporary and has no nutritional value, but the taste of the fruits of life are everlasting and nourish the soul exponentially. It may be time to change what tastes good.

Yesterday morning the Lord spoke to me and said, “Giants are falling, microphones are being abandoned.” No context, just a statement, I knew I was take notice of. Two hours later, I get sent an article about yet another Christian leader who is the head of a mega church, possibly the largest in the United States who has stepped down due to sexual misconduct. Now the statement from the Lord makes sense to me, “Giants are falling, microphones are being abandoned.”

Church when news like this comes out and it will come out more an more, we must act with maturity not naturally. Naturally we want to make assumptions of facts we have not been told, we want to cast stones and we may even want to walk away from any church, but those are all initial natural and understandable reactions. However, maturity doesn’t get moved when giants fall and microphones are abandoned, maturity asks questions. What is the reason for this coming out now if it happened “x” number of years ago? How come some giants are submitting, confessing and stepping down, while others are defiant, resistant and standing their ground with microphone in hand despite what has been brought to light? One other question to ask is, why is it happening now? What is the meta narrative God is speaking through these situations we are hearing about on earth?

We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I realize leaders are held to a higher standard and are judged more strictly, but we are not privy to all the information so we cannot be judge or jury for we are only reading headlines. I am not condoning anything, I am calling for believers to remember two things, one we live in glass houses so we should not cast a stone and two Jesus said, He who has been forgiven much loves much and our job is to forgive, not be naive, but forgive them, for every time a giant falls and a microphone is abandoned it is a disgrace to the name of our God, who is Light and in whom there is no darkness at all.

Every Father’s Day the first person I wish Happy Father’s Day too is my Father in heaven. Then my husband and earthly dad. I know it is just a Hallmark Holiday, I get that, but honor is fitting any day of the week, so when there is a specific day where people are going to go do things for their earthly husbands and fathers, I always make sure the Lord knows I view Him as my Father and I honor Him as such.

Maybe today is painful day for you. We forget dad’s may not have had dad’s, so many have hurt from their dad’s, but we all have earthly dad’s and we all have a Heavenly Father. Father’s are incredible people with a role only they can play. Father’s instill identity in their children; a fatherless generation is an identity challenged generation. The way to instill identity is to teach them about their father on earth and in heaven.

My Father in heaven has been protection when I thought it was rejection; He has been provider when I thought I was destined for poverty; He has been healer when I thought I was too broken to be loved. Jesus said, there is only one way to the Father and that is through Him the Son. It is not because His Father is distant, cold, angry, or unwelcoming, but because Jesus also said, If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. Jesus was His Father on earth in the flesh. Jesus and His Father were One!

We have a Father who dwells in heaven but He is an ever present help in time of need; a Father to the fatherless; a defender of the widow and orphan. My prayer today for you is that you would lift up your eyes beyond the pain of your reality and see you have a Father in heaven, who loves you, champions you, disciplines you, all because He loves you so much. Whether man or woman, adult or child, we all have a need for a Father and what a great day to acknowledge our Father in heaven even as we celebrate our husbands and fathers on earth.

Adventures with God begin without having any assumptions about what He is saying. Last night I heard over and over again the word reprobate. I am reading the book of Romans right now, so hearing that word, I said in my sleep state, “got it.” I kept hearing it, like don’t forget this, so when I finally woke up, I looked up the word and it is found in the KJV in Romans 1:28 and is tied to a reprobate mind. But when I looked up the root of the word, I knew God was not talking about a reprobate mind sexually, but about being reprobate financially. Let me explain.

The word reprobate comes from the root word to be acceptable, approved, tried and in Strongs Concordance is defined as having do with coins or money. Well this changes everything, it is not about being reprobate sexually, but about reprobate money. The Greek word for acceptable, tried, proven is identified clearly by Donald Barnhouse “In the ancient world there was no banking system as we know it today, and no paper money. All money was made from metal, heated until liquid, poured into moulds and allowed to cool. When the coins were cooled, it was necessary to smooth off the uneven edges. The coins were comparatively soft and of course many people shaved them closely. In one century, more than eighty laws were passed in Athens, to stop the practice of shaving down the coins then in circulation. But some money changers were men of integrity, who would accept no counterfeit money. They were men of honour who put only genuine full weighted money into circulation. Such men were called “dokimos” or “approved”

The Lord keeps pointing me to the fall of Babylon especially the financial system. This word reprobate leads to Daniel 5 where the handwriting on the wall says, “Mene Mene, Tekel, Upharsain” you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. I was sent to Jekyll Island, GA in August 2021 by the Lord to abort what was conceived there. What was conceived there was the Federal Reserve Bank, the Lord said, Decree Daniel 5. Now last night and other days this week the Lord has been speaking to me about the financial fall of Babylon. Now we know why Jesus turned over the tables in the temple. Friends, when Babylon falls we will all feel the shaking, but it is for the making of a people who have been tried, tested, approved to rise and lead us into a building project that will bless nations. This is all really good news.