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Last night we were invited to join some framily for the Elevation Worship Night/Pop Up Church. I went thinking this is going to be a concert environment, we are going to sing, dance, laugh and have a great time. All of which we did. However, what I did not expect was for that arena to become a bona fide sanctuary. My experience in very large settings like that is worship gets dumbed down to songs we sing, but last night was not a song fest, it was a worship experience. The presence of God was palatable in the place. We prayed, we prophesied, we proclaimed a line drawn in the sand so the enemy cannot come into our city. My God today, it was powerful.

My long time friend Kuda Chimanya and I talked about how powerful it was and we have been in some very powerful services together. The people behind us, the generations around us, everyone near us could sense the presence of God. It was truly palatable at least in section 103 it was. This was so encouaraging to me, because the bigger things get the more watered down they tend to become, but we are in a new day. Hungry hearts, authentic worship leaders and multigenerational worshippers create an environment that lifts up the name of Jesus and He truly by His Holy Spirit draws near.

Oh there was a great time had by all and Elevation Church put on a great show, but what impressed me was the presence of God that was there in that place. My friends, there is. a shift that has happened in the hearts of God’s people, it has been a behind the scenes underground work and it is starting to manifest above ground.

In worship last night I saw a lid on our city, and I prayed the Lord would lift the lid, moments later the heavens were open and I knew the lid had been lifted. What God is doing in the earth is not just for one city, one church, one nation, it is an earth wide move of God of the likes we have never seen or heard before. Drop your ideas of what you think it will look like or where it will happen, for truly anything is possible and we can’t stay silent any longer.

When the Lord will not change the subject, it is important that we don’t either. Understanding the subject comes from listening, learning and the leading of the Holy Spirit, but God is not just a talker, He wants action as well. That is why God said to the prophet Isaiah about the people of Israel, they have eyes but cannot see and ears but cannot hear. We read our bible, we hear the voice of God, but if we don’t do what it says, it was nice words, but there are no actions. In the New Testament the apostle James says the same thing, but he uses the analogy of looking at your face in the mirror then going away and forgetting what you look like. It is a whole Bible subject and we must become people who do what the word says.

Now with that said, the Lord is not changing the subject about Babylon and its fall that is fast approaching. It may have already started, but the when it falls it will shake all that can be shaken. So what is Babylon? Babylon is a mystery it says in Revelation 17. The mystery is multfaceted, it is a system of control and those who are the leaders of it, we do not know their names. It is an oppressor of people, the Assyrians and the Babylonians in scripture carry similar attributes to the mystery Babylon system. There is much to it, but it starts in Genesis 11 with a first mention and is spoken of through the whole Bible where it has its final mention in Revelation 18.

I was reading Jeremiah 51 the other day and at the end of the chapter it says, “So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” The Lord said to me, take Jeremiah 51, tie it to a stone and throw it in the Cumberland River in TN and make the decree as stated there. So I did, this morning. I am not one who “feels” things when I am obeying what God said to do, but I felt this one in my guts. God is done with the Babylonian system it is not going to rise again, per the words of Jeremiah. Bye Bye Babylon!

God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, says David in Psalm 50, which is my prayer partner this morning. But what exactly does that phrase mean? I have some very good friends who have a God dream to help children and they want to name their land, land of a thousand hills and their desire is to have 1000 heads of cattle. My friends are country folk and I love them for it. Last month I went to a worship night at a coffee shop in Nashville and the name of the place was Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. We bought our friends the coffee cup to prophesy to them their dream. Then the other day we went to the Amish community here in TN and we went past Thousand Hills Cowboy Church. Now this morning I am praying Psalm 50 and it speaks of the cattle on a thousand hills. Three times, this phrase has come up in less than a month, okay Lord, what are you saying?

In the context of Psalm 50, I am in awe and wonder as David begins the Psalm by saying, “The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The God I serve has the authority to summon the whole earth, all of creation, He can put out the call and every created thing, must come and gather before Him. There is no other God with that kind of authority, oh the wonder of our God. “He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people” (Ps. 50:4). He gathers us all together to judge us, not to condemn us but to course correct us, because we are out of alignment.

His summons is to speak truth to us, we are performing for him with our sacrifices and He is wanting our hearts, our gratitude, not our performance or our sacrifices. It is a time of course correction. The Lord has always been after our hearts not our offerings. He wants us to love Him with our hearts and we so easily slip into performing for Him, but we are His children and He delights in us. So, when He says He owns a cattle on a thousand hills that is not a prosperity scripture, it is a reminder, he doesn’t need our offerings, our sacrifices, our performance, He wants our hearts of gratitude, our love, our affection, my friends, He is taking us back to the heart of worship which is our love for Him and His love for us. This judgment makes us feel so much better, when we realize He wants us and He wants us to want Him!

I was in my closet this morning getting ready to take my dog for a walk. I pulled down some jogging pants off the shelf and coins fell out of the pocket. I bent down to pick them up and remembered this was the third day in a row coins have fallen out of pants pockets. Patterns are common in my life, I see them, I recognize them and the Lord has me take notice of them for they communicate truth about something. This morning as I was bending down to pick up these coins off the floor, the Lord says, “EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.” I remembered when Dutch Sheets spoke at Glory of Zion church and said, people kept giving him bags of coins and the Lord told him “CHANGE IS COMING, CHANGE IS COMING.” Therefore, when I heard this morning, “EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE” I knew the Lord was speaking.

When I lived in Minnesota, we took a trip to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore. On the way to our destination, we passed a place called Wall Drug. On the highway, the closer you got to Wall Drug, the more the signs increased. They went from seeing a sign for Wall Drug from every 20, 10, 5 or even 1 mile to literally every 1000 to 500 to 250 feet until you reached the exit for Wall Drug. Wall Drug is a shopping area in South Dakota and if you have driven that highway or been to that location you know what I am talking about. The closer you got the more signs you saw. This is what is happening in the spirit right now. God is releasing His message everyday telling us what is coming, not in the distant future, but in the near, very close, any day now future. Are we down to months, weeks, days or are we in the hour, minutes seconds. I am not sure, but we are so close to “EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE” it is as though it has already. begun, it is that close.

What are we supposed to do? Jeremiah 6:22-23 tells us, “When I delivered your ancestors out of Egypt, I never said anything to them about wanting burnt offerings and sacrifices as such. But I did say this, commanded this: Obey me. Do what I say and I will be your God and you will be my people. Live the way I tell you. Do what I command so that your lives will go well.” Make sure you are up to date in your obedience to God. If there is any debt outstanding in the way of obedience make it right, for obedience is your strong tower, your unshakable place, your hearts desire. John 15, my friends, abide in Him, do whatever He says, He sees and knows everything and loves you so much, but you must obey His voice. “EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.”

Prophecies are words that are seeds that are sown in your heart but do not manifest instantly, it takes time to walk into what was sown. If you want instant answers, instant fulfillment, instant anything in the kingdom of God you are going to struggle. Time is not your enemy but your ally in the kingdom of God and time builds things in you that are unseen until time has finished its work. Oh the gift of time in the kingdom of God.

One prophetic word I have heard and been told over and over again is Amos 9:13 “”Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” GOD’s Decree. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills.” It such a great word, it preaches really well, but the words “It won’t be long now…” can taunt you, can tempt you to quit, can make you say, why the delay, or did God really say. My friends, time is not your enemy it is your ally. But it takes time for us to walk into this word, but I can tell you and will tell you more soon, when this word happens in your life, it truly makes your head swim with how fast things happen.

We call the faith walk, crazy, because we have no control over when, where, and how things are going to happen. Our need for control, predictability and understanding keeps us from walking by faith. The reason being we don’t really believe God will take care of us; that He hears us when we pray; and that He will answer us. Jesus said there is one thing He is looking for on earth…faith. Faith is the substance, the evidence, the one thing Jesus looks for, yet it is the one thing we don’t operate in; we don’t exercise it; we don’t have. Faith doesn’t come natural; faith isn’t instant; faith is a long-term relationship with the living God.

Faith is the master key that unlocks everything on earth. No wonder Jesus said to the disciples, where is your faith and oh, you of little faith. He also said to the Centurion, I have never seen such faith in all of Israel and to the woman who had the 12 year issue of blood, go and be made whole, your faith has healed you. Faith is what we are lacking, which is why we don’t experience God activity. To see God in our lives, we must walk by faith and not by sight. Faith is what Jesus is looking for on earth!