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Have you ever heard it said by the Lord, “I am going to create a new heaven and a new earth?” Did you know because it is said in the book of Revelation chapter 21 we have been taught it is for the “Millenial Reign of Christ” or it is after the end of the world as we know it? We teach things or say things like this because we believe the beginning of the world is Genesis and the end of the world is Revelation. To the Hebrew people it is cyclical, like a clock that goes from noon to midnight, but to Gentile people it is linear, like start and finish. How you view the word of God, whether cyclical or linear, determines how you see things playing out.

If the Bible is cyclical like Sunday through Saturday, then a new week begins on Sunday, and you will see Genesis through Revelation as cyclical like a clock. But if you see the Bible as linear then Genesis is the beginning and Revelation is the end of the book, and that viewpoint is critical to understanding the word of God. God removed Israel from their land and sent them to Babylon for 70 years, but gave them a prophetic promise that Babylon was not the end of their world, but the end of their cycle of idolatry and the beginning of something new when they returned. No wonder Jeremiah said, “For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, plans to prosper you, to give you a future and a hope.” He said this before they went into Babylonian captivity. Therefore, God was speaking the end, a future and a hope, from the beginning of Babylonian captivity.

This is a theme in the word of God, when it got dark because of the iniquity of the people, then they would go into captivity, but God always promised a return, a restoration, a bright future. Cyclical, night and day, day and night. Friends, the darkness is the end of one season, one day, one captivity, and the the day is the beginning of a new day, a new season, a new opportunity to serve the Lord in faithfulness. Ezekiel 11 says, when God restores Israel to their land, He is giving them a new heart and a new spirit so they can follow after Him. It was a new beginning He was giving them, just like 2 Corinithans 5:17 says He makes us a new creation. Sin is darkness, but we are now light, it is a new day, everything is cyclical, if it is biblical. Welcome to all things becoming new. This is not the end we are entering, but a new beginning as a nation.

I am reading Ezekiel 7 this morning and it says, “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land. Now the end is upon you…” We know Israel is here today on the earth as a viable nation with many people living there, so it was not the end of a nation, but what was it the end of and what is the Lord saying is ending right now, for the word of God is living and active (Hebrews 4:12)?

Ezekiel goes on to say, “Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them. The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.” If you read Ezekiel 7 it is sounding strikingly similar to Revelation 18 when the Babylonian system came to an end. As I am reading today, the Holy Spirit is making it clear the Babylonian system of financial oppression upon people is coming to an end, not long from now, we will see an end to this system of oppression.

I know I have been saying it for a long time and I will keep saying it as long as this is what the Lord is saying. I did not go looking for these verses, I am reading the book of Ezekiel and the Holy Spirit is saying, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come! Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.” (Ezekiel 7) Friends, brace for impact, the day of the Babylonian system is coming to an end!!!!

Have you ever walked into a store and as you are shopping, minding your own business, all of the sudden you recognize the song that is being played over the loud speaker? If it is a song you know it tends to cause you to pause in the middle of your shopping or even begin to sing along.

Hearing that music in a store is the closest thing I can relate to the scriptures in Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy” and Psalm 32:7 “You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.” Can you hear the songs being sung over you in your home, in your car, in your workplace, in your neighborhood?

In a noisy world where the news is not always good, there is a song being sung over you and it is a song of deliverance. We so often think deliverance is some church service; or tent revival; or demon coming out; but the Lord does not need a stage performance to deliver us, He just releases a song over us. Can you hear the song of deliverance being sung over you?

Some of us need a love song of deliverance sung over them for they are hurting; others need a song of victory sung over them for they are in a battle; still others need a song of celebration sung over them for they are coming out of a long wilderness season. I don’t know what song God is singing over you, but I want to invite you to ask the Lord to turn up the volume so you can hear the song He is singing over you today.

Life is such an adventure. We have never lived on earth before. We have never been this age before. We have never been in this situation as a planet before. There are so many unknowns, it is either nerve racking or adventure filled. No wonder people try to predict, prophesy, interpret or declare what they believe is happening or going to happen. Our need to be in the know about things we know very little about is palpable.

So, why do I call life an adventure? Because it is less about what we know and more about who we know. When we know the God who created the earth and said when it was dark, let there be light and light was, we know He is all knowing, so we don’t need to know much. One of our greatest challenges is we do not like to be childlike. Children should not have a care in the world. They should enjoy the life of a child. The challenge we have is we care too much about what is going on in the world and we are riddled with fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, loneliness, and bad theology about God.

When you know who is in charge, who created you, who holds the whole world in His hands, you, with me can see life as an adventure not a place of anxiety and fear about things we can’t control. Proverbs 1 says, “Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square; At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings: Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. He who listens to me shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”

God is Wisdom and Wisdom is God, not earthly wisdom, not human wisdom, the Wisdom that is God, and when we listen to God, to the Holy Spirit that is Wisdom personified, we have no fear of the dread of evil. Friends, in the words of the old hymn, Oh what peace we often forfeit all because we do not turn to God in prayer. James 1 says, “If anyone lacks wisdom He can ask God and He will give it freely without finding fault.” Wisdom is what makes life a great adventure because with Wisdom in your ear there is nothing to fear.

I am sitting at Panera Bread in Mount Juliet, TN this morning as I have an appointment just around the corner to get a car stereo installed and as I am sitting here I am reading Psalm 30. I read verse 5 that says “For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.” I have a flash vision and it is of someone under the covers in their bed and the sun is shining, a new day is upon us, but they are only peeking out from under the covers and I hear them say, “I am too afraid to come out into the new day. I don’t believe He is not mad at me, I do not want to be hurt anymore.” The vision and vocal was so obvious to me.

I then hear the Holy Spirit say, “Memories are what is keeping people from entering into the new day. They do not believe anything is going to be different, so they want to remain in bed, under their covers in the spirit.” Friends, I am here to announce to you, the sun is shining, the new day has broke, it is not like anything we have ever heard or seen before. You will not be disappointed but you just get out of bed.

I am not sure what your bed is, what you are hiding under, but cast off the covers, kick your feet around and stand up, get up, the new day has broke, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the air is fresh. The skies are blue and it is going to a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day. The Lord says to us today, “For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.” It is a new day and you will be so glad you got up out of bed for it!

Many prophetic people at the beginning of this year spoke about a coming separation in the body of Christ between the wheat and the chaff. Many times we have identified the wheat as believers in Jesus Christ and the chaff as unbelievers. However, now that the seperation has manifested it was not about separating for the sake of identification the believers from unbelievers, but between believers. It was a a move of God that is identifying so clearly those who are hungry for God and those who are satisfied with their relationship with God.

The demarcation is obvious. Hungry people act, talk and desire differently than those who have need of nothing or who think they know so much. This demarcation was not as obvious even a few months back, but it is very obvious now. People who want to know the truth, people who want to know Jesus, people who want to know the word of God are literally pulling it out of those who are storehouses of revelation truth. The pull is not for some anointing or personal prophetic word, the pull is for the truth about Jesus Christ. There is such a hunger in people for God, it is obvious in those who don’t have the same desire.

We were in Houston this past weekend and the Holy Spirit swept into the room and when He did, everything changed. Tears were falling down faces, cries were being heard all over the room, tissues were being used by the boxes. It was not the message that did it, it was the word of God, for He had a prophetic declaration for those women from Isaiah 40:1 which says, “Your warfare has ended!” As soon as they heard that one statement from God the whole room shifted. I can’t explain it, but the hunger for God is obvious in many and the lack of hunger is very obvious in others.

The body of Christ is being identified as the hungry and the satisfied and God is raising up people who are storehouses of revelation truth and they are distributing freely to the hungry and it is happening in many places. Storehouses are now open and truth is being poured out. The seed they are sowing is revelation truth, and it is feeding a famished body of Christ.

Isaiah 55:1-2 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost.
“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.”

A couple weeks ago a friend of mine spoke to me about the war within. He said we must no longer be at war within ourselves if we are going to access all that God has prepared for us in this day and hour. Those words have been mulling around inside of me and continue to challenge me. I had never thought about having a war inside of me, but the truth is most people have a war inside of themselves. If we had peace inside of us we would have peace all around us. This goes for people, cities, churches, and nations. The war around is because of the war inside of us.

Now today I am reading James 4 in my personal time and it says, “What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?” The source of your pleasures, what? James goes on to say we lust and we are envious; we ask but don’t receive because we will spend it on ourselves. How do you stop a war inside of you with these kind of fighting words?

The Lord is inviting us to declare a cease fire inside of us. He is inviting us to agree to a peace treaty with ourselves, so we stop fighting, stop arguing, stop complaining as though we know the big picture of all things. He is inviting us to rest not war; to peace not strife; to the pace of grace not striving. The invitation from the Lord is not to take up arms, but to lift up our hands in praise. There is so much He has prepared for us, but until we are done with the war in us, we will not be one He trusts to build through us.

The Bible says, because David was a man of war, he could not build a house for God, so it was passed on to the next generation. Solomon was a man of peace and he built the house for God. Friends we are the house of God, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit and I hear the spirit saying, “Peace be still!” There is so much to inherit, but it begins with ending the war within.

The chiropractor is a doctor that gives you an adjustment because something inside of you is out of alignment. Once the adjustment is done you feel better, for in the words of my chiropractor, “I turned your power back on!” I loved when he would say this to his patients, because whatever was hindering the power of the nervous system in the spine to be hindered, he removed the hinderance and in doing so they were operating by design again and it made them feel better.

In the spirit the Lord wants to give us chiropractic adjustments daily, weekly, monthly and even sometimes hourly. He wants to adjust our attitude, our perspective, our long range vision, our thoughts, and our doctrine. The one thing He wants to adjust above all others is our view of Him. So many of us view God through our life’s circumstances that we do not even realize we have an out of alignment view of God. This view is not sin, but it is hindering our ability to see Him as He is.

This morning in prayer I was praying Psalm 25 and the psalmist says, “Make me know Your ways, teach me Your paths, lead me in You truth and teach me.” As I was praying those very words, the Holy Spirit gave me an adjustment from believing I am waiting for God to I am waiting with God. This may seem small and insignificant to you, but it is revolutionary if you can hear the truth in it. How often have we said, oh I am just waiting on God for this promise or that promise, for this breakthrough or that breakthrough, this healing or that healing. We say it all the time, but the Lord does not want us waiting for something, He wants us to see we are waiting with someone.

Waiting with someone makes the wait that much easier, for we then know we are not alone. We are waiting with God for whatever it is we are waiting for, but we are not waiting alone. I hope this adjustment makes you feel better, I know I am walking out of this prayer time with a fresh pep in my spiritual step.

DELUGE! This is the word the Lord spoke through me last night as I was outside looking at the “Pink” moon and praying for some friends who needed rain for their crops in KS and rivers of resources to flow for their business in TN. DELUGE, not a word I use on a daily basis so the word caught my by surprise and had to look up the definition. DELUGE is a great flood; a heavy downpour; something that overwhelms as if by a great flood.

When I read a heavy downpour, immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of Elijah on Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18 which says, “Now Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower.” This was after the fire fell on the altar, Israel declared, the Lord, He is God, the Lord, He is God! And after the prophets of Baal were seized and slew. Th sound of heavy rain, that is a DELUGE, Elijah was calling for.

My friends in KS said they were in the worst drought since 1936 when she texted me last night to pray. Then this morning, as I am reading 1 Kings 18, she sends me a text message and says, “IT’S RAINING!!!!” Only God!!!! I have been shouting, celebrating, singing, dancing all over the kitchen as yet again our God said, “DELUGE” and now it is raining in KS on my friends land.

Here is what I want to decree over you today, DELUGE!!! May rivers of resources flow in you and through you like a DELUGE to reveal the abundance of the kingdom of God. May it overwhelm you as to how kind, how powerful, how faithful our God is. May His DELUGE remind you of His overwhelming love for you.

Remember what Elijah said before it began to rain, “In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower.” Let the darkness be a reminder to you there is a DELUGE coming your way. The darkness is a sign of the abundance of rain, you are about to experience a DELUGE!!!!

What if we have heard a different gospel for so long we believe the gospel we are hearing is the gospel of Jesus Christ? We hear the word the gospel and assume it only means, the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, but it is not just that, it is also the preaching and living out of the character of Christ not just the work He did on the cross for our salvation. Hear me out for a minute.

Christians are challenging, not because we are not saved and “going to heaven” but because we are easily offended, slow to forgive, quick to give others the silent treatment, inconsistent givers, titles driven, and wanting to be entertained not to serve. Okay, I could go on, but I am going to stop there. In one word, Christians are judgemental in the way they treat others but crying, “Don’t judge me!” Friends, I am seeing so much flesh in people that call themselves Christians. Yes we are sinners saved by grace, but we are also called to display the glory of God in the land of the living, by being image bearers of the One we claim lives inside of us.

I love how we go to DC to repent for our nations sins, but they are usually for some behavioral sin that “unbelievers” are committing like abortion. However, 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If My people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray….” This is a personal prayer closet call, not a national day of repentance for some behavior we think America has done to make God mad and judge us. Friends, we are the light of the world that is dirty so people can’t see it. We are the salt of the earth losing our saltiness so people can’t taste it.

We need a personal revival in our prayer closet for the character of Christians is little to be desired. James 2:13 says, “For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.” We must stop preaching, listening to and echoing the gospel of judgment and get in our prayer closet, remember he who has been forgiven much loves much, ask the Lord to forgive us for being a brat and get our character aligned with Christ, for there is a lot of work to do, but it will take humility personally to lay down our lives for our friends. Mercy is being poured out in a way we cannot see for we have believed the gospel of judgment and we must repent personally. This is good news if you can hear it!