Would you join me for a coffee talk this morning? Repent means to change the way we think, correct? Okay, so when we call for repentance, we are calling for people to change the way they think. Yet changing the way we think is actually harder to do than changing what we do in many cases. Our thoughts are the root while our actions are the fruit. It is easier to pick bad fruit, than to change a bad root. But to really repent we must change the way we think. This must be a deliberate decision, this is not something that just happens. Let’s talk about a thought we need to change in order to be ready for what is fast approaching.

In Matthew 24 it says “As in the days of Noah so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man”. There were many things that happened in the days of Noah, but the main one is the flood. Who was swept away in the waters of the flood? The wicked. Who was left behind to replenish the new earth? Noah and his family. In Exodus 14, who crossed through the Red Sea on dry ground? Yes, the nation of Israel. Who was swept away in the waters of the Red Sea? Yes, Pharoh and his army. Were we not told in Exodus 14:13, “The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.” Okay, since this is all true, why is it so hard for us to believe God is sweeping away our enemies not us? Why do we struggle to believe we are called to be builders of the nations when the enemy is removed?

Isaiah 65 is what started this in me this morning, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create.” As I read this I realized we have been taught this is in the “millenial reign” or for some time after Jesus returns, but the Lord keeps telling me this is for now not for some time in the future. We are in the days of Noah, we are in the days of the Red Sea crossing, we are in the Isaiah 65 days, but we must repent, change the way we think, for the enemy is going to be swept away and we are going to be left behind to replenish the earth, to rebuild the nation, to restore the people. We are about to get to work in a way that is going to be enjoyable. I hope you ready to live your best life!

No one is perfect; we all need grace; no one will always say or do the right thing; have mercy; remember love covers. We must remove our finger from the trigger of snap judgments as to why someone reacted the way they did or said what they said. There are many variables that make up a persons life. Sometimes people will act out of character; extend grace, remember where you came from, remember who they are.

I was reading James 5:19-20 today in the Message translation and it reminded me of how in church we try to act so perfect and yet fail so often. We need to be gracious with each other, no matter how strong someone may be they have weak moments, they have struggles, they are human just like you and just like me. Listen to what James says, “My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.” When we see someone who is “off” our job is to lead them back not push them away further.

One thing I have learned from walking with God is that He always corrects us up, He does not rub out nose in our mistakes. He wants to lift us up and out of whatever situation we have gotten ourselves into. Friends, we must do this for one another. We must show each other grace, we must extend a hand to those who are struggling, we must keep our eyes wide open, for there are many who have fallen into pits of shame, sin, struggles and they don’t know how to get out. Love lifts others up does not push them down when they fall, stumble or struggle. There is a lot going on we know nothing about, show grace, it will give people what they need to get back in the race. Grace is the empowerment to succeed.

What the mainstream media says about a nation maybe the facts that are happening in a nation, but only what God says about a nation is the truth about that nation. There are many nations on the earth, each nation has a destiny, a calling, a reason for which it was created. Every nation is made up of people with a culture that is unique to them. One nation is not greater than another nation, each nation is distinct in its design. God made the nations and He himself birthed people in those nations to express what He wanted to come from that nation.

There is not national heirarchy on the planet from the view from God’s throne. There is distinction, there is variety and there is color, but there is no heirarchy. God does not prioritize one nation over another as more valuable, more special, more favorable. God is no respector of persons. John 3:16 makes this clear, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life, but whoever does not believe in Him is condemned.” The choice is ours to believe or not believe in the Son who is the Savior of the world.

Now here is what God is saying to the planet, to the nations of the world. There is a planet wide rescue mission happening and it is being declared from heaven to all nations, Isaiah 62:8-9 “GOD has taken a solemn oath, an oath he means to keep: Never again will I open your grain-filled barns to your enemies to loot and eat. Never again will foreigners drink the wine that you worked so hard to produce. No. The farmers who grow the food will eat the food and praise GOD for it. And those who make the wine will drink the wine in my holy courtyards.” The decree coming from the throne of God is this! I can hear it loud and clear, the era of enemy invasion on the planet is over and the restoration, recompense and reward is fast approaching. Watch God rebuild the planet like only God can. This is the good news coming out of the kingdom throne room today. Hallelujah

Across the street from where we live currently, is a house that recently sold, but has not yet been moved into. While walking the dog, I saw a raccoon in the yard of this house. I have lived in this neighborhood for two years and have never seen a raccoon, so I knew this was a prophetic statement of some kind, but I wasn’t clear what. I processed some ideas with friends, then this morning while walking the dog, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about this raccoon and vacant house.

Raccoon prophetically is a picture of an “opportunistic thief” according to the Divinity Code. I thought about this all day yesterday, wondering many things about this raccoon and where I saw it. Then this morning, as I walked by the house, the Lord said to me, “Opportunistic thieves take advantage of vacant houses.” Immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of Matthew 12:43-45 “When a defiling evil spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn’t find anyone, it says, ‘I’ll go back to my old haunt.’ On return it finds the person spotlessly clean, but vacant. It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he’d never gotten cleaned up in the first place. That’s what this generation is like: You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren’t hospitable to my kingdom message, and now all the devils are moving back in.”

I was stunned by this statement and prophetic picture the Lord was showing me. Yet the truth of it all is undeniable. We are undergoing a drip drip drip of a national house cleaning, but we are about to experience a flush and fill of the likes that is going to blow our minds. The Lord is going to flush out the wickedness, clean the house of our nation and then fill us with the Spirit of God in a way we have never known before. All because He knows better than we do, an opportunistic thief is waiting to invade a vacant house and the Lord is not going to leave us vacant, He is going to fill us with the glory of God. We have been robbed long enough, it is time to be flushed and filled with the glory of God!!!!! We are the house of God as a nation, as a church, as a family.

The Lord spoke to me last week and said, “The next revelation for the church is going to be intimacy with humanity.” I have sat on this for a week now, because it came with such a deep love, a piercing gaze and a powerful presence, I did not want to treat this word lightly. Now a week has passed and it is coming up in so many different ways, I knew with what the Lord spoke to me moments ago, I had to share it with all of you. Friends, the church is about to learn what it means that God Himself wants and is releasing intimacy with humanity.

I sat down to read and pray this morning and as I did my phone had the numbers 6:33 as the time, immediately I heard Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.” Then right on the heels of this verse the Holy Spirit said, with only the Matthew 6:33 context, “GOD HEARS!” I smiled and took it as a kiss from heaven, opened my bible to pray Psalm 116:1 and now I am undone. “I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.”

I tell people in my bible study group, the Holy Spirit is the perfect point guard (basketball language) because He passes the truth right on your path so you walk right into it. The Holy Spirit said, God Hears and then the first verse on this 16th day of February in Psalm 116:1 the Bible says, “I love the LORD, because He hear My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.” I call this a kiss from heaven. The Lord is about to reveal His passionate pursuit of us as His church, His children and He is calling it intimacy with humanity.

My friends, God hears you when you pray; God sees where you are; God knows your name and He is hotly pursuing you. He loves to talk with us, He longs to walk with us, He loves doing life with us. He is not a god that is far away, He is Yahweh and He wants intimacy with humanity.

Have you ever wondered why people seek glory (abundance, honor, splendor, reputation, dignity, the best seat)? Glory is the Hebrew word kabod and it means “weighty”, it is heavy and it was not meant for us to carry. Yet it comes with things we think we want. Our wants for glory are rooted in our lack of knowing the truth about who we really are.

Here is what happens. The enemy deceives us and when we believe his lies, it creates in us a deficit. Then he offers us glory to fill the vacuum he created. The glory then gets so heavy we can’t maintain what we gained. The weight crushes us and hurts others. When we are under pressure, when we are carrying any kind of weight, we say and do things that hurts other people. The enemy is never after just injuring you, he is an equal opportunity enemy. He goes after those you love as well.

It is no wonder the psalmist says “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of your loving kindness and truth (Psalm 115:1). The Lord loves us so much He does not want to put a weight on us we cannot carry. We were never meant to be ones who get glory. The beauty of the mystery of God is that Christ is in us and we are in Christ. People see the works of Christ in us and through us and they acknowledge that as they should. However, we are not meant to carry His glory, we are not built for that kind of pressure.

Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.” When we declare with the psalmist, “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory…” we are walking with an easy yoke and a light burden, but if you want the glory, you will experience the pressure, the weight and the results of carrying something you were never created to carry. He alone is built to carry glory, so we sing, “You deserve the glory and the honor, so I lift my hands in worship and bless your holy name!”

Love is an all consuming word. Love embraces us and hold us close. Love protects us and keeps us safe. Love denies all others and lets us know we are the only one they want. Everyone is made to be loved, cherished, honored, respected. Is it any wonder love is the most attacked thing in the world? Is it any wonder love is the one reason, the root reason for every issue we face? Love is what we lack and love is what we crave.

To find what we want we must be willing to walk away from what we have been living in. Psalm 114 says, “When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.” You may ask what does this have to do with love? I would answer everything. If we are not wiling to walk away from the beliefs we were born into, have experienced and the emotions that attach to those beliefs, we will never become a sanctuary of love, a land in which love rules us. You see love is not something outside of us, it is something inside of us.

1 John says, we love because He first loved us. People run from the lover of their souls and seek after a lover for their soul. We are seeking to obtain from people, what God has already provided for us. If we would leave Egypt (figuratively) we would then be able to cleave to Yahweh and we would become a sanctuary, a place where His love rules in us and through us. The kingdom of God is a culture of pure love. We don’t need a holiday in America to tell us it is a day of love, for we live in a kingdom of love.

Everyone wants, needs, is made to be loved and what the world needs is some people who know they are loved by God, so they can go and really love others. God is love! We who know God, know love, now we are called to go and love others how we have been loved by God. Happy Valentines Day friends.

Do you know how many “names” you have to get past in order to access “The Name” which is above all other names? Do you realize how many names are vying for your attention, everyday? Names carry power, they want recognition, they demand attention. Names of companies are seeking your money; names of celebrities are seeking your attention; names of leaders are wanting you to follow them; names, names, names, so many names. Not just on earth, but in the heavens as well.

Psalm 113 says “The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God, Who is enthroned on high, Who humbles Himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?”

The name of the Lord our God is the name above all names. His name is above the earth and the heavens, but to access that name, you have to push past all the other names. Many people preach and prophesy what they heard from a lesser name that they admire or listen to. But to access the Name of the LORD our God, you have to be willing to go beyond all the names vying for your attention and there are many.

The final name you have to go beyond is your own name. This is possibly the hardest name to deny, because it is you. Your name may be the very name that hinders you from accessing His name. No wonder Jesus said, unless you deny yourself you cannot follow Me. Our name is so important to us, we struggle to deny it in order to access another name. But once you deny even your own name, your own reputation, your own need to be seen, heard, etc. then you access what Paul describes as the name above all names. Once you access His name, no other name gets your primary focus, for HIs name is so life giving, so satisfying, you truly don’t want any other name to be glorified, not even your own.

It takes no effort at all to see what the wicked are doing; to find something evil to reveal; to speak about all the darkness around us. However, if you can push past the obvious to the truth of what God is doing you will see a whole other narrative getting louder and louder in the nations.

The word of God speaks in now time, but prophesy speaks of a time we are not currently in. This is why I do not like media prophets who claim God is saying something we can hear on the news. That is not prophesy. Prophesy sees what is coming in the future and speaks it out before it manifests in the natural. The kingdom of God is here, the good news is all around us and heaven has many things to say about it. Prophesy is hearing and speaking what God is saying, not what the media is wanting.

With that said, I was praying into Psalm 112 this morning and specifically these verses, “The righteous will be remembered forever. He will not fear evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. His heart is upheld, he will not fear, Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries. He has given freely to the poor, His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted in honor. The wicked will see it and be vexed, He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked will perish.” With tears running down my face as I see a Father’s protection of His children who remain in righteousness, the Holy Spirit said, “The righteous do not retaliate against the wicked; the righteous demonstrate and the wicked see it and are vexed by what they see.”

When God honors and exalts the righteous the wicked are vexed. In the exaltation of the righteous the desire of the wicked perishes. The Holy Spirit is wanting us to know heaven is honoring the righteous and it is vexing the wicked. My friends, righteousness is exalting nations, wickedness is perishing, but you must look past the mud to find the gold. The tide has turned and everything is changing. The crossover may be turbulent but we are crossing over!!!!!

Do you believe in do-overs? Do you think it is possible that we are in a 2.0 season of the likes many do not even realize or recognize? I know there is a lot of fear of a negative do-over, but what if it is a circle back moment in which God is about to remember what He spoke four years ago? What if we are in a moment of National Jubilee with restitution pay for what happened to us in 2020? I am not one that usually speaks prophetically about sporting events, Johnny Enlow is more prolific in this arena than me, but four years ago the Lord spoke to me a prophetic word about the Super Bowl called National Jubilee. Well on this Super Bowl Sunday, we have the same two teams in the Super Bowl and I believe we are about to see a National Jubilee. Here is what I wrote four years ago.

Super Bowl 54…National Jubilee 1.20.20

Is it possible that God is speaking through a national sport to speak a national message to the nation of the United States of America? I believe He is; I believe God is decreeing over our nation: National Jubilee. As believers we are called to discern the times and the seasons (1 Chronicles 12:32/Luke 12:54-56); as we look at some of the details of the upcoming Super Bowl, can you see the decree God is making…National Jubilee.

The two teams in the Super Bowl are the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs have not gone to the Super Bowl in 50 years. Both 49 (ers) and 50 (years) are Jubilee numbers in the Bible (Leviticus 25:8-10). Jubilee is a time of debt cancellation, land restoration and family reconciliation. I see a National Jubilee.

The combined colors of the two teams are red, white, and gold. These colors speak to Jubilee as well with Isaiah 1:18 saying, “Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” This ties to the Day of Atonement in which the national sins of all of Israel was atoned for. The gold is a Jubilee color as well, for the 50-year anniversary is called the Golden Anniversary for married couples. (I wrote a whole blog called Golden Jubilee if you want to check it out at mouthpieceministries.wordpress.com).

The cities they represent is significant as well, for San Francisco is in the Northwest regions of the United States, Kansas City is in the Midwest region of the United States and Miami, where the Super Bowl is being played, is located in the Southeast region of the United States. This again speaks to a national word God is speaking, not one specific to a city, ministry or person.

It is Super Bowl 54 that is being played, Isaiah 54 is the chapter of this Super Bowl and there are so many prophetic thoughts in this chapter and very specific for those who have been waiting for God’s next move on planet earth. Here are a couple keys, I see in this chapter as it relates to National Jubilee: Shout for joy; enlarge; stretch out; spare not; lengthen and strengthen; for you will possess nations and resettle desolate cities; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, who is called the God of all the earth; with great compassion I will gather you; in righteousness you will be established; no weapon that is formed against you will prosper; your vindication is from Me declares the Lord. National Jubilee!

A few more things, the Super Bowl is being played on 2/2/2020 that is Isaiah 22:22 which says, “I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open.” This governmental key was given to Jesus for National Jubilee and I see Him opening debt cancellation, land restoration and family reconciliation in our nation.

Finally, the late prophet Bob Jones said to Shawn Bolz, more than 10 times, according to Shawn Bolz, “When the Kansas City Chiefs go to the Super Bowl and win it, you will know that it will be a sign of the upcoming and end time revival. He explained that God is raising up His chiefs to be apostolic leaders in many spheres of influence.” Johnny Enlow, Lance Wallnau and many others have spoke about the 7 mountains and how God is going to bring the gospel of the kingdom into the 7 mountains of culture with this next revival, so for me, this is just another confirmation of a National Jubilee.

Whoever wins the Super Bowl will bring great joy to that city, but I believe this Super Bowl is not about one city getting the victory, but about God decreeing National Jubilee, so the who nation gets free!

We are now on 2/11/2024 and the Super Bowl is being played in Las Vegas and it is Super Bowl 58. So there are some number differences from the prophetic word above. Not to mention the stadium they are playing in is called the Death Star, which is a Star Wars name. So much to say about these things, but will wait. But notwithstanding I still believe we are in a National Jubilee and we are about to see debt cancellation, land restoration and family reconciliation because as I have said so many times, Babylon is falling! Enjoy your Sunday.