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My spirit keeps saying over and over again, “People are the treasure, people are the treasure.” Friends, the most valuable thing on earth is people. People come in all shapes and sizes; they come in all colors and cultural backgrounds; they all have varying and different stories and current situations; but people are the treasure of earth.

Many pursue silver and gold as the highest commodity of earth, but the Lord says, “People are the treasure of earth!” People hurt us because they are so valuable to us. People are the gift that keeps on giving; people are who we pray for more than anything else; people are what make up our churches; people are why we have companies; people are what makes our life rich. People are the treasure and you are a people, which means you are a treasure.

When we get a revelation of people as the treasure, we will enjoy people, celebrate people, listen to people, laugh with people, cry with people, be patient with people, extend grace to people, smile at people, the earth is full of people, because people are the treasure of earth. Older people, younger people, all people are a treasure. Oh that we would get the revelation of how much God loves people. He sent His person, Jesus the Christ to earth, because He loves people.

The Bible is a story of people, lessons to learn from people, promises kept and broken by people, experiences of God and people. No person is perfect, but we as a people and each of us individually are a treasure. I see a treasure chest and as it opens, I see the faces of people, you my friend are the treasure of earth and you are highly valuable to God and me. Oh that we would get a revelation of how to love and treasure people!

Pain, it is something everyone has endured. Pain unhealed manifests in a myriad of ways, but it does manifest. Unhealed pain can be seen in self-protection, addiction, anger, fear or even suspicion. Pain has a way of eroding our ability to trust people, which causes us to operate in a way that is not our original design. No wonder the enemy hits us as kids when we are defenseless and then just reinforces it throughout our lives in order to establish the pain inside of us.

In this day and in this hour, we must be still and know that He is God. Psalm 46 speaks of storms, struggles, situations that cause unrest in the earth realm and in the midst of it all, the psalmist declares in verse 10 “Be still and know that I am God.” God is a strong tower, a refuge, He is the prince of peace, He is unmovable, unshakeable, unstoppable in what He is doing in the earth with all of HIs children. Both those who have accepted His invitation to salvation and those who have not yet.

One of the things we need to discern in this hour, as we deal with people who are in pain, in ways we do not even understand, but see the manifestation of, is the need to validate their feelings, but cast out the spirit. People who are afraid have many reasons for feeling fearful, if we do not validate their feelings we actually invalidate them. They need to know we see they are afraid, but we must not validate the spirit of fear that is trying to attach itself to them. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Fear is a feeling and it is a spirit knowing which you are dealing with is critical. Cast out the spirit but validate the feeling.

Anger is similar to fear, people will get angry about injustices they see and hear, situations they encounter, experiences they have. We need to validate the feeling of anger, but when we are dealing with a spirit of anger, we cast it out and make no room for it. God is cleaning houses, White houses and churches houses, our houses and others houses. Fear and anger are going to be seen and heard, because they are valid emotions but we must not tolerate them as spirits even as we validate them as feelings. #toolsforthecomingdays #lessonslearnedrecently #loveistheprinciplething

Spring is here in the kingdom of God, even though spring has not come naturally here in the earth realm. On August 30, 2024 the Lord spoke to me and said, “Now is the time when kings go to war.” This is a direct quote from 2 Samuel 11:1 which says, “In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle…” but it was August 30, not March or April when the Lord said this, so I kept it to myself and only shared it with a few friends privately.

On November 12, 2024 the Lord whispered to me Jeremiah 23, so I read the chapter and took some notes in my journal, one of which I wrote, “God raised up a king (speaking of the presidential election in the USA) because the shepherds weren’t doing their job, taking care of of the sheep.” Jeremiah 23 is a statement to shepherds and prophets who are not doing what God wants them to do.

Now yesterday I listened to Kris Vallaton’s message from November 10, 2024 called The New Era of Righteousness, I recommend all listen to it, but he says, the Lord speaks to him Jeremiah 23 and it says in verse 11, “Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.” And the Lord whispers to me again, I am doing a spring cleaning in my church. Then Kris says, “Judgment begins with the house of God and it has begun, but once the church cleansing is over, the Lord will cleanse the world as well for this is the new era of righteousness.”

God is doing a spring cleaning, this is happening in a major way in the prophetic and the charismatic church with many stories happening and Kris says more will come out. This is not a time to point fingers as though we are not living in a glass house so we can throw stones, this is a time to search our own hearts, for we are the church, it is not a building and God is doing a spring cleaning in all of us. For we are in the New Era of Righteousness!!!!

Have you ever been to the chiropractor? I used to work for one as the marketing manager for his wellness center. What I love about the chiropractor is that people come in one way and leave feeling a whole lot better. The reason being is because they got a much needed adjustment. The challenge with the chiropractor is when you are out of alignment, you can come get an adjustment but it is only temporary, you need to keep coming back and for some people it is frequently.

We have a lot of Christian Chiropractors in the body of Christ. They give you a book to read to adjust you; they give you a scripture to read, hoping to adjust you; they give you a prophetic word or some action to take in order to help adjust you. The challenge is, adjustments are temporary, what you need is not an adjustment, you need to be brought back into alignment. Adjustments feel good for a while, but if you do not get back into alignment you are going to need another adjustment.

The word of God is not a chiropractic adjustment, it is an invitation to come into alignment with the assignment God has for you. If you are out of alignment you are not functioning by design. God does not give you an adjustment, He actually uses prophets, to bring you back into alignment, so you can get going with your assignment. Amos 7:7-8 says, “This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.”

I hear the Holy Spirit saying, I am bringing a prophetic plumb line into my church in order to bring my body back into alignment, because I have an assignment for them to fulfill in their generation. This alignment will cause us to function by design, will break hope deferred and will cause blessings to flow freely. Once you are back in alignment, the need for adjustments ends, because in alignment is how God created us to operate by design.

I love the prophetic, I love giving and receiving prophetic words, I love how prophecy ignites hope, establishes truth and builds us inside strong. Moses said, oh that all of God’s people would prophesy. It has been amazing listening to prophetic voices online and in person. It has been a learning experience for all of us to learn the difference between a prophetic word of encouragement and a prophetic warning; between a prophetic unction to function and a confirmation of something we already know.

The prophetic is not gender specific, but is available for all to do. Acts 2 fulfilled Joel 2 when Peter says on the day of Pentecost, quoting what God said through Joel, “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy.” Prophesy is proclaiming the words of God to the people of God. Some don’t think women should be preachers, but God says we can ALL prophesy. So, if you don’t think we women should be preaching, then just call it prophesying, because that is biblically established in both the Old and New Testament.

In Judges 4, Deborah, a prophetess, speaks a work to Barak the commander of Israel’s army. I love this word, for it is establishing in Barak what God already told him, but he wasn’t doing. “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?” Deborah encouraged him, prophetically, to do what God told him to do, but wasn’t yet doing.

All these side issues about gender must die in the body of Christ, because here is a woman leading a man in the Old Testament. God is using both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, slave and free, Jew and Gentile, for the kingdom of God is at hand and we all are called to prophesy. Let’s go, we have land to take, a harvest to bring in, and glory to give to God!!!!

The Lord says, “Remember your history with God when you are in the middle of the mystery of God.”

If you are a Christian you have a history with God. He has done miracles in you, through you, or around you that you cannot deny. Your salvation alone is a miracle that cannot be denied if you do not forget who you used to be before you met Jesus. Friends, we have so much God has done in our generation, we could write story after story. Then add all the history Israel has with God and all the stories in the Bible about what God has done and we have enough history with God to never doubt God.

The challenge is, we forget the history when we are living in a mystery, but God gave us a history with Him so when we are walking in mystery we can lean on our history. God does not change, He is the same yesterday, today and forever. What He did for Israel, He will do for our nation, your nation, any nation. We have been grafted in, we are one new man in Christ, neither Jew nor Gentile any longer. We can trust the history of God, when we don’t understand the mystery we are walking in right now.

Mystery of sickness; mystery of marriage, divorce, death; mystery of money; mystery of dreams yet to be fulfilled; mystery of barrenness; mystery of hurt, grief, pain; mystery of abuse and misuse of people; so many mysteries, yet we have a history with God. Psalm 78 says, “He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;”

Friends, remember your history with God, talk about it, dwell in it, for your history is what is going to get you through the mystery. Future generations are depending on us.

Our women’s bible study group just finished a book by Havilah Cunnington called Created to Hear. In this book the author lays out four ways people hear God and she invited us to explore our bent. The four ways are hearing, seeing, feeling and knowing. I am a hearer. I hear God and I love to hear His voice. Others in our group were seers and they see angels, pictures and even movies as the voice of God. Some are feelers, they pick up things in the atmosphere, they have deep compassion, they feel the voice of God. Finally, there are some who are knowers. They just know what God is saying or doing. They just know and can’t be moved on what they just know. It was an incredible study as we as a group realized we need each others gift to establish the voice of God we are hearing and to see the bigger picture God is speaking. It was an incredible time we had together.

This morning the Holy Spirit spoke so crystal clearly to me, saying, “Open the blinds the sun has been shining all along.” He went on to say, “Pray Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 so people will open their blinds.” Finally, I heard the song, “Let the Light In by Cody Carnes.” It was so clear what I was hearing and the Holy Spirit was so excited to share it, for He wants people to open their blinds and see the sun that has been shining all along. We tend to live with blinds closed and then speak from the dark room we are in, but it is time to open the blinds, and let the light in.

Ephesians 1 says, “I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ.” This is the prayer we are to be praying for those who are living behind closed blinds.

Let The Light In by Cody Carnes says, “It’s time for the sleeper to wake
It’s time for the old winds to change; I hear the Spirit say it’s time; It’s time for the dead man to rise; It’s time for the Great Light to shine; I hear the Spirit say it’s time. Open up the windows, let the light in; Open up the windows, let the light in; Open up the windows, let the light in; Let the light in, Let the light in.” This is the song we are to sing over them as we pray for them. It is spring time in the spirit and we must open up the blinds, then the windows, for there is a gentle breeze blowing and the Son has always been shining.

Reading the Bible challenges cultural narratives in such a way that a decision has to be made as to which narrative is true. The cultural narrative is so strong inside of us, we tend to read the Bible and think that sounds good, but it is not something I agree with let alone will apply to my life. Many people have read the Bible for various reasons. We would be surprised how many nefarious activities have been established in culture from reading the Bible. Doesn’t the Bible say, even the demons believe in God and shudder?

Here is our challenge, as believers, we read the Bible, we hear sermons, we listen to podcasts, we watch videos, but we are not changing our narrative to fit the word of God, for we are so baked into the narrative of culture. Reading Proverbs 15:16-17 this morning prompted these thoughts, listen to Solomon the wisest and richest man in the world at that time, what he has to say, “Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.”

How many of us would honestly say, I would rather have little and fear the Lord; I would rather have herbs and love around my table? I know everyone is thinking, I would, but would you really? Does your life reflect that as truth? I remember the day my boyfriend, who is now my husband, and I sat on the deck of my condo in Malaysia overlooking the city, and he said to me, “If it is you and me and a bowl of rice is that enough for you?” I did not flinch, but said in response, “If it is you and me (pause) that is absolutely enough for me.” We were engaged less than a month later.

The Lord has led me to lead a life where I have had much and I have very very little, but I have never been without. But one thing has been constant and that is the fear of the Lord which means obedience no matter the cost and it has produced a love for God and a love for people that no amount of money could ever buy. Friends, we must evaluate ourselves and ask the question, what do I truly value, because there are two narratives vying for your heart and they produce two very distinctly different fruit in our lives.

The tide has turned, the leadership is changing in every area of society, the land is being redeemed for the glory of God to fill the earth, but we must remember history in order not to repeat it. Judges 1 speaks of the 12 tribes of Israel being given authority to take possession of land God has given them, but in order to do that, they must drive out the evil inhabitants of the land. This was the command of the Lord to them from their leader Joshua, Yeshua.

Judges 1 speaks of how each tribe did not drive out the inhabitants of the land, but let them dwell with them and just subjected them to forced labor. Subjecting them to forced labor was not the command, they were to drive them out completely. It may sound good to not drive them out, but it was not what God told them to do. Our job is not to adjust what God has said, but to obey what God has said, for He sees things we do not see; He knows things we do not yet know. Notwithstanding they did not obey.

Judges 2 says, “Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

Their lack of obedience brought a thorn and a snare, while their obedience would have brought freedom and peace. The same is true for us today, we must obey the Lord, not partially, but completely. Not thinking we can adjust what He has called us to do, because it sounds good to us. Partial obedience brings thorns and a snare. We are living in a time when the land is being cleansed and it will must be a complete obedience cleansing, not just a nice touch up. Righteousness is going to exalt this nation, but there must be a cleansing of the land in all areas first. No partial obedience, it must be complete this time. Future generations will thank us for it.

Talking with the Lord yields the best fruit, because He is so much wiser; so much kinder; sees so much more; than we do. The conversations the Lord initiates brings forth insight and understanding as well as a greater depth than anything we could have ever thought of. This is why humility is a posture we must maintain, for we only see in part, think in part and process in part, but He, as God sees the whole picture, knows every moving part and is processing us into His image and likeness. He alone is God, we are not.

Today the walking the dog conversation was about selfishness and what the Lord showed me is profound. The Holy Spirit showed me two kinds of selfishness, one selfishness is rooted in evil. It is greedy, covetous, idolatrous, and God calls it evil. James 3:16 says, “For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.” I have always been taught selfishness is evil, self-absorbed, only about you, thinking of no one else. But God…

Then this morning the Lord revealed to me another aspect of selfishness I did not know. He showed me that some selfishness is not evil it is survival mode. He said some people have misplaced trust, so are living in fear of lack and therefore are selfish not because they are evil, but because they are in survival mode. Survival mode looks selfish, but it is not evil. I have a family member that lives in survival mode and I always viewed it as selfishness, but today the Lord said it is not evil it is survival mode.

Being able to discern what type of selfishness is manifesting will determine the response we are to have to what we see. If the selfishness is evil, then the Lord said it is to be starved. Don’t feed it. But if it is survival mode, then we are to have compassion, for they are barely making it emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically, or in some other way. They don’t need our pity, they need our compassion, our prayers, our support. This is a new way of thinking of selfishness for me, but it sure was liberating and gave me a way to pray for those I love but only saw as selfish.