This morning as I sat worshiping in the Lord's presence, once again I began hearing those two words spoken to me, "strategies revealed." With such a sense of expectancy I sat before the Lord and invited Him to speak to me whatever it was He wanted me to know. Although my initial expectation was for personal direction, He went larger than that, and I received a word, not merely for my own household, rather, for His household.
There's no questioning that we, as Believers have a very real enemy. If he can't have our spirit, he most certainly wants to rob us of anything and everything else that he possibly can. He's cunning, and more often than not, deceptively posing as something he's not. Here's the catch in that, with everything that our enemy is, God is much more! Which means, for every plan and snare the enemy sets for us, God has a plan already intact to stop us from stepping foot into the trap. If we do happen to find ourselves caught up in the enemy's trap, God has a plan for our release from it. It's all about whose voice we incline our hearing to and whom we choose to obey.
There seems to be a common struggle going on in the lives of many in the Body of Christ, especially during this past year. It seems as if we've been contending for breakthrough to no avail in various areas without witnessing it manifest all too quickly. Although this contending can sometimes become frustrating, it's important to keep in mind the analogy of the chipping away of a very large and dense slab of concrete/rock. With each striking of the rock, although you may not see a tremendous amount of breakthrough, little by little, blow by blow, it becomes more weakened and eventually with persistence, it will give way and break in two. The thicker the substance and the more solid it is, will obviously require a greater amount of strength and effort to break it apart.
As I was searching through some older notes of mine, I came across this word that the Lord had spoken to me in 2009 about the First Nations People. I don't believe I ever released it publicly, but as I read through it I felt the strong prompting of the Holy Spirit that now is the time to release it to more than the few I had shared it with at the time. In a vision, the Lord showed me a leather moccasin. As I looked upon this moccasin, I heard the Lord say, "Restoration is coming to the First Nations People. Restoration of peace, and the loosing of the bondage they have been held in. I am restoring them to a place of purity and respect. The wind of My Spirit is about to sweep through the tribal lands and through the households of those who are among the heritage of the First Nations People. A new day, a new joy, a new liberty, the liberty of My Spirit and their true heritage in Me."
Yesterday evening, I kept hearing two words spoken over and over into my spirit; "strategies revealed." I began to feel a stirring within me, as if the Lord wanted to disclose His upcoming for some things my husband and I have been seeking Him about.
The enemy's greatest and most strategic battlefield and often times the most successful, takes place within the realm our minds. If we can become discouraged enough or afraid enough to lose our perspective of who we have been transformed to be through the redemption of Jesus Christ, then the enemy has won the battle - temporarily. Losing our perspective usually takes place in times of continued discouragement or fear. Discouragement and fear are stemmed from deceptions from the enemy spoken into our thoughts, in attempt to exaggerate the problem into being bigger and more powerful than the promises of God. On the contrary, peace and joy are attributes of faith in God and His word. The enemy of our soul wants nothing less than for us to see ourselves as failures, outcasts, rejected, sick, poor, powerless, and unforgivable. Those are all lies to hinder us from the truth of who we really are.
A few months back, the Holy Spirit began to stir these words into my spirit and once again He has drawn me to them and quickened me to share them with His Body of Believers. "The sound of declaration, praise & worship that goes out from you in the natural may not sound to you as a fierce weapon of warfare - or as if penetrating into the realms of the supernatural, nor may it seem to you very powerful to your natural sense of hearing. Even so, be of no doubt, within the spiritual realm where authority is recognized and faith is the loudest, the most fierce and effectively penetrating sound of all, your words of declaration, your praise in the face of trials and your sweet, most holy form of worship - (that which is from your heart) - echoes; pierces and shakes through the heavenlies with the greatest, most beautiful and powerful force of sound that does more than you can see or hear with the natural perceptions.
For the majority of us, it's highly likely true to say, we'd like to see expansion in our lives, in some, if not all areas of our lives. Whether it'd be a pay increase, a job promotion, a bigger house, a larger sphere of influence, higher education, a bigger ministry or church, a more successful business, and the list could go on and on from there. What we oftentimes forget to take into account is that with increase into our lives also comes increased responsibilities and accountability. The idea of more sounds really great, and I'm not saying it's not great, I believe it is, but more often than not, when we imagine increase being given to us, we neglect to consider there will be a process of learning how to manage our newly instituted level of increase.
Once again the Lord has placed this dream upon my heart. For the majority of this year, the Holy Spirit has been drawing me back and back again to this dream that I had nearly eight years ago. He spoke to me this morning and told me it's time to address it and display it to His Body once again. There is a particular emphasis on a specific portion of the dream that He wants me to highlight to disclose the hour we are in. He has been ministering to my spirit that we have just walked through the dryness of the pool water being drained, and we are indeed at the very brink of the ocean water spilling in with the great force of His Spirit.
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