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Do you ever find yourself asking for forgiveness for the same thing over and over again? I asked my son for forgiveness yesterday for something I did, and this morning, the Lord revealed to me I ask him for forgiveness for this same thing over and over again. It is not that I am not forgiven by him or by God, but what I wanted to know is why is that same reaction coming out of me year after year, week after week, so that I am having to ask for forgiveness over and over again. Can you relate?

While I was out walking the dog this morning, the Lord and I were discussing this and what He showed me I want to share with you. 1 John 1:8-9 says, “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” There is a three step process here and I was missing the third step.

First we must acknowledge our sin, many people hurt others with their reactions, their words, their whatever and do not see it is as sin so move on and the person is left in their room crying alone from what we did. Thank God for people that share with us when what we said hurt them, but for those that don’t we need to be more self-aware to see when we are hurting someone else, for this is sin. Secondly, we must confess our sin. You can’t or won’t confess what you do not think you did wrong, even when confronted by someone, who had great courage to share you hurt them. Confession is more often specific than it is general. Thirdly, we need to be cleansed from ALL unrighteousness. This is the step I needed. Unrighteousness is anything that is out of alignment.

I saw what I did and was doing, I confessed, but I wanted to not do it again, and the Lord said, “You need to be cleansed from all unrighteousness.” I agreed and asked for the Lord to cleanse me from all unrighteousness; set me free from anything in me that is out alignment for my reaction is not right and I need God’s help to fix it. Oh the freedom of acknowledging sin, confessing sin and being cleansed from all unrighteousness. We need all three to truly be free. This helped me so much and I hope it helps you.

History is not a subject many people enjoy, but history is where we find the mystery of our current reality. I sense the Lord saying to us, “Remember history.” There is National history, International history; and there is Biblical history. Honestly, the Bible is a history book, that is alive, so it not only shares history, it actually speaks in current reality. When the God of the Bible is the was and is and is to come God, the great I AM, it has the power to speak about what was, what is and what will be. Just another reason why reading the Bible is so relevant for today and everyday. I believe we are to remember all history, but I am going to highlight some Biblical history for just a minute because I believe we need to remember it for the days in front of us.

Remember how God released 10 plagues through Moses on Egypt, where Israel lived, in order to rescue Israel from the hand of Pharoh through the Red Sea crossing.

Remember Noah spent years building a boat in plain sight, then entered that boat while people were watching, but the people were more concerned about eating and drinking so didn’t care what Noah was doing. Remember how God started over with Noah in Genesis 8.

Remember Ezekiel 37 said, “I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.” Did you know to rattle means earthquake, shaking, commotion, trembling? Remember the shaking made an army.

Remember Jesus spoke a parable about 10 virgins, calling 5 wise and 5 foolish? (Matthew 25)

My friends, remembering is not for the sake of knowledge, it is for the sake of knowing the times in which we live. We need history in order to understand current reality and mystery. We need to remember the stories, so we can see, hear and respond to the voice of God. If you don’t have your own history with God then it is important to remember other people’s history with God. History builds trust and trust is what we need as we go through a major worldwide deliverance of the likes we have never gone through before. The rattling is for the making of an army; the plagues were for the deliverance of a nation; the building was for the dry land; the oil was so they were ready to enter in. Remember!

“THE FAMINE IS OVER!” The Lord says, the famine is over. I can hear people saying, what famine? This was not a financial famine, this was not a food famine, we have been in a famine of hearing the word of God. Amos 8:11-12 says, “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.” There has been a famine in the nations of the unadulterated word of God. There has been a famine for more years than we realize of gospel of the kingdom. There has been a famine of the truth that can set us free, but the Lord says, “The famine is over!”

Preachers of righteousness will be heard; prophets with the word of the Lord will be heard; songs and sounds from heaven will be heard; teachings about the kingdom of God will be heard; truth that will set you free will be heard; the famine is over. Many will not be shouting amen, because they are going to hear things they had never heard before. A new wave of awe that makes you wonder is about to be heard in the church, at conferences, in boardrooms, classrooms, and in stadiums. The same old message you have always heard was elementary and God has graduated us all to a new grade level, so the learning is commencing. We want our kids to continue to learn, but somewhere along the line we stopped, but God says, the famine is over and the learning has returned.

The famine has been long, it has been arduous and it has caused many issues in the body of Christ. The Bride of Christ is seriously malnourished, unproductive and lacking authority, but the famine is over. Strength is about to be restored, vitality is returning, and passion for God will be seen and heard. The famine is over! Food is being served in abundance, I see the waiters coming out of the kitchen of God even now with hot, fresh food for those who have been famished from a lack of meat to eat. THE FAMINE IS OVER!!!

No one likes to be lied to. When someone finds out they have been lied to it is a betrayal of the likes that takes time, forgiveness and more time to get over. Now on the flip side, many people can’t handle the truth, don’t want to hear the truth, or do not even believe the truth when they do hear it, but truth has a way of revealing itself as truth, but it must be spoken. If your have to err to one side or the other, I suggest erring on the side of speaking the truth, for if or when they find out you lied to them, it is going to be perceived as betrayal, for they would have rather you told them the truth and they rejected it, than you lying to them.

Life has a way of swinging the pendulum, we went from hell fire and brimstone preaching to tolerance of the likes you cannot even call it the Bible things people say to justify behavior. But neither swing of this pendulum is Biblical. We are not called to beat people with the Truth, we are not instructed to push so much fear they say a prayer, but we are also not told to ignore the Truth in order to not hurt their feelings. We must be people that Solomon speaks of in Proverbs 3:3-4 “Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man.”

When I wasn’t saved, I heard the Truth, but was not ready to change my life to conform to it. Sin had me in so much slavery, I could not even comprehend the freedom I was being presented with, so I rejected it. But once I was able to say yes to the Truth and follow the Lord, I remembered those people who tried to share with me and I rejected them and I thanked them for sharing truth with me even when I couldn’t hear it. We must be people who are kind, yes, but also speak the truth, for Solomon says this is how we find favor in the sight of God and man. We must be Truth speakers, for if we aren’t they will feel betrayed that we lied to them, when we knew the Truth and didn’t speak it.

My friends, my friends, oh my goodness, the Lord is so good. I was reading Proverbs 1 this morning and the Holy Spirit said, “What if the unlocking of the word of God is the master key to unlocking every other mystery?” When God asks you a question you do not act like you know the answer, you join all the other prophets in scripture and say, “Only you know Lord!” As I sat there, the Lord showed me that the word of God is the master key to unlocking every other mystery. With this truth, it is no wonder the enemy gives us a desire to study everything but the word of God, but what we don’t realize is that all the “comms” and “symbolism” was all learned by God. My mind is exploding as I type.

Let me unpack this thought for a minute then let me know what you think. Proverbs 1 says, “A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel, To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Many of us are in the dark about so many things because many things amongst the “elite” are spoken in riddles, so the average person cannot understand them. Then when someone is on their trail, they call you a conspiracy theorist so people think you are crazy. Truly prophetic people who hear the voice of God speaking about something that has not happened yet, get looked at funny too, like where did you get that from.

The fear of the Lord is needed because we cannot be operating in the “sin” they do to obtain their knowledge, so we must have clean hands and a pure heart, if we want “To understand a proverb and a figure. The words of the wise and their riddles.” Purity gives you access to mystery, henceforth, the enemies goal to keep you living in “sin”. Purity gives you clarity of sight, clarity of thought, and discernment. This is huge, when we make the word of God our subject of choice and highest priority, we actually receive the master key to unlock all other mysteries. No wonder Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and ALL these things would be ADDED unto you.”

My son took piano lessons for many years and the first tool we were told to buy when he started lessons was a metronome. A metronome was set at different paces depending on the tempo of the song he was practicing. The metronome is a clicking sound that would align my sons tempo with the tempo of the metronome. Some of his practice included a faster pace, while others included a slower pace. Both paces were challenging to him during practice time, for he either was not able to maintain the faster pace due to finger flexibility or knowledge of the keys; or he was not enjoying the slower pace because he considered it boring. But that metronome taught him how to play a variety of songs, so whatever tempo the song demanded, he was able to be in time with the tempo of the song, because he was trained with the metronome in practice.

The Lord reminded me of this metronome today, for the Lord does not have one speed at which He operates, but He does have one song He is playing and He is wanting us all as His body to be singing the same song. Unity in the body of Christ is only possible if we all know what song God is playing at any given time. We must know the tempo of the song and the key it is being played in for us all to be playing or singing the same song. Some of us are playing an instrument, some of us are singing along, but all of us need to be on the same song at the same time at the same tempo and in same key if we want to hear the song of heaven for earth right now.

For this dream of God to be a reality in His body, we must quit wanting to live by the beat of own drum. This is hardest for Americans because we value individualism over corporate. The kingdom of God is not invidualistic it is a kingdom, that has a king. I would love to hear even one church singing the same song of heaven, one city, one state, one nation, but it starts with one family singing the same song of heaven. The enemy loves to tell us we can do our own thing and be successful, but the kingdom says, it is a we thing not a me thing if we are going to be successful in the kingdom.

Individually we need to die to ourself, so we can live in this kingdom. We must know what time it is in the spirit and what song is being sung. Solomon said, “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—“. The church is living in so many different time zones, it is no wonder unity is hard for us. But I believe God is teaching us kingdom and one of the classes we are going to take is called Kingdom Time. Get ready to learn how to work with the metronome of heaven, it is a required tool for the class we are about to take. God is setting our pace, so we can all sing the same song, at the same tempo and when He does this the sound that comes out of the body of Christ is going to bless the nations.

One of the challenges we as people face is we are more accustomed to hearing the voice of people and know the fellowship of people, but we are not accustomed to the voice of God and the fellowship with God. The reason this is a challenge is because we speak from the view of people rather than the vantage point of spending time with God. If you want to know who’s voice you are more accustomed to, listen to what comes out when you speak. Listening to what you say, reveals who’s voice has seeded your heart. Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). Listen to what you say so you know what your heart has been seeded with.

The reason it is important to know who is seeding you is because those seeds are affecting your view. If the voice/fellowship of people have seeded us more than the voice and fellowship of God we will have a limited, short term view of life. When we have limited, small, short term views of scripture, life and world events, it reveals we have been listening to and seeded by the words of people not of God. The more time you spend with the Most High God, the more your view expands, your thoughts enlarge and your perspective is bigger than you and your little life span. There are so many benefits to spending time with God and knowing His voice.

Psalm 90:2-4 says, “Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man back into dust And say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes.” God views a thousand years like yesterday, because He is an everlasting God. We can have the same view because Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” We have the capacity to have a God view about time, eternity and we too can see a thousand years like yesterday, but we must spend time with God! Lift up your eyes, we are here to make things beautiful, its long overdue we have an eternal view not in heaven but for earth.

Two weeks ago a friend felt like she needed to go to the Parthenon in Centennial Park here in Nashville, TN and she asked if I was available to go with her. I said yes, my schedule permits this, so we went. She had never been to the Parthenon or this park, so I was eager to hear what she saw and heard while there as fresh eyes and ears. I listened carefully to all she shared, but what I didn’t expect was the many new things the Lord would speak to me. We went into the temple, as she had never been inside, let alone outside. While inside, she walked around and spoke things she was was hearing and seeing. Me, I was using my plumbline for the first time as a new prophetic weapon of intercession.

As she walked around with eyes wide open, I began reading the many plaques on the walls and on the pedestals explaining details about this idol in this temple. One of them I was reading prompted the Holy Spirit to say to me, “Prince of Persia”. I told my friend, we are dealing with the Prince of Persia here and I showed her what I was reading. Now, two weeks later, the Lord speaks to me this morning about the Prince of Persia, the Parthian Empire, and says to me, Daniel’s gold statue is in the Parthenon, it is the King of Babylon, the Prince of Persia, the gods of Greece and the Roman Structure. I am stunned at 5:45am this morning. I never saw how all four of them were right there based on what Daniel 2 describes.

I get out of bed, and the time is 6:16, I immediately think, Ephesians 6:16 which makes sense, the armor of God, but the Lord says, in a gentle whisper, as my heart is not wanting to assume, but is asking, is Ephesians 6:16 what you are saying and He adds another 6:16 to the arsenal, 2 Kings 6:16, “Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. He answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Now we have three 6:16’s, one is Jeremiah 6:16, stand at the crossroads and ask for the ancient path; Ephesians 6:16, armor of God; and 2 Kings 6:16, do not fear!

When I put it all together this morning, the Lord is clear, there is an ancient enemy coming to make war with us, this will be the battle of the age, it is the Daniel 2 spirit coming, so be dressed in the armor of God and do not fear for there are more for us than are against us. Finally, remember, our battle is not against flesh and blood and our weapons are not carnal, but they are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds, shofars ready!

Can you feel it? Can you hear it? Can you see it? The battle lines have been drawn and people are taking their stand. It is in the atmosphere, it was feels like an overnight shift, just like we went through a long streak of intense heat, but now with the turn of a day, we are experiencing different temperatures. It felt like the heat was never going to end, it has felt like this rule of the enemy was going to last, but in a day, in a moment, it is as though everything has shifted in the spirit. Unless you are in a deep sleep, you can feel it, you can hear it, you can see it. People are headed to the battle line, they are ready to fight this time. Fool us once, but you will not fool us twice. This time people are ready.

If you listen to Dutch Sheets, the arrowheads have arrived in every state, the borders have been painted, and in the words of Tim Sheets, “We are the Calvary!” My friends, Intercessors have been working underground all summer long, preparing for the September and beyond showdown. It is a battle of the ages we are headed into, but the intercessors are fearless, for they have fought the lion and the bear underground where no one saw them and now they are about to take off the head of Goliath for all to see. The Most High God, has sent His angelic army to assist in this battle and He does not lose. Fear not, stand strong, fight hard and advance with every word from the mouth of God. No retreat, no surrender. We are called to be more than conquerors through Christ Jesus.

There is a rising, which means there is a falling. Proverbs 28:28 says, “When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.” The reign of the wicked has run its course, righteousness will exalt this nation and the nations. Proverbs 28:1 “The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.” Welcome to the showdown of the ages, no turning back, no retreat, only victory for the King of kings and the land that He owns, for the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Advance for He has given us the victory!!!

Most people are only a specialist in one maybe two subjects, but it seems like everyone wants to have an opinion about everything. The challenge with this is when someone who specializes in a subject is in the room, people do not listen to what that person is saying, because they love what they have to say more than listening. We reveal our foolishness by our shallow understanding of things which comes out in our opinion. We are not able to know everything about everything, we actually know very little about anything, so what we make our specialty subject, politics, education, healthcare, business, leadership, marriage, family or even the Bible is what we know the most about. When someone has a passion for something and has spent time researching, studying and pursuing understanding about a subject, then we come with our opinion about it, we reveal our foolishness.

Church, we need to learn to love listening more than we love talking and sharing our opinion about everything of which we know next to nothing about. Once scroll through social media of your choice whether text or video will make you realize how opinionated and yet uninformed most people are. We know next to nothing about Trump or Obama; Oprah or Elon; yet we speak as though we have coffee with them weekly. Most people do a “daily devotion” but want to claim to be ones who understand the depths and mysteries of God. Still others want to raise a banner at a school board meeting spouting their opinion on a subject, but know nothing of the inner workings of the education system and how it has been infiltrated for indoctrination. The greatest gift we can give ourselves is the gift of listening for there are people around you who are studying a subject and they know things about it we don’t but could learn if only we would listen to learn not to hurry up and share our opinion.

The Lord has taught me to stay in my lane and learn with a listening ear about other lanes, for each lane is a full time job to learn and we really don’t know as much as we think we do, so it is high time to stop spouting opinions about things we know little to nothing about and start listening with both ears to those who are studying the subject being spoken about. Opinions, generalities and shallow knowledge is ignored more than we realize, people have ears for the authentic not the opinionated. Shhhhh its okay to not have to talk.