There is a Rumbling
in the Earth!
by Barbara Yoder
I
found this word in my file. It was a word I delivered in July of 2005. It was a
very strange experience because I was sitting down behind a table we had on the
platform at the church. It was at one of the large women's conferences we had,
there were about 500 women present. We were in the midst of having a panel
discussion dealing with leaders. Suddenly it was as if an earthquake was
happening. I could feel this distinct rumble under my chair as if all of the
earth under me was shaking. Furthermore, I not only felt it, I heard it.
Everything was shaking, everything.
As
I read it, I heard the Lord say this word is for now. I did not send it out
then. I held onto it. I believe this word will help guide you, create
understanding concerning the times and seasons we are in, and give you the key
to the door of deliverance.
The Word
There
is a rumbling in the earth. God is
rumbling you out of mindsets, positions, identity, locations, relationships,
bondages, fears. I was sitting here and
I could hear it, I could hear this constant ongoing and seemingly unending
rumbling of rocks under us, and it was shaking everything. It was as if we were standing on rocks, round
rocks; and they were all moving and rumbling. And they just kept rumbling. We
could hardly maintain our footing.
What
I want to say is that there is a rumbling in the earth. God has placed you on unsure footing. Because He is changing your mind; He is
repositioning your feet, to place you where he has been developing you to
stand. Not necessarily geographically but within the place that you are
assigned. He is shifting your anointing,
he is increasing your strength and courage and even now there is a shaking off
of the old. There will be no old left.
Fear
not the instability under your feet for it will shake and then it will shake
and the shaking will not stop, for the Lord is creating a scenario for massive
change. For the Church will not look as
it has in the past. So look not to the
past, but stand in the present, and look to the future. For the unsteadiness, the insecurity, the
instability and the failure to be able to fully define-is of God. Because he wants you to let go of how you
have known things to be; even how you view things; and He wants you to look to
Him and to leaders that God has given to you, to reposition you for the new
thing.
Fear
not the unsteadiness under your feet and also do not try to define it
prematurely. As you wait upon the Lord,
the Lord will bring the clarity and the definition. But even the instability and unsteadiness has
been created by him. There is a rumbling
that has already started in the heavens.
But the Lord would declare to you that the rumbling is also now on earth
under the feet of leaders, for He is calling us out of the old, out of the
past, out of that which would trap us in nonproductivity and irrelevancy, to
reposition ourselves for the future. And
we will not only look spiritually different, but we will not look the same
physically, the way we have in the past, for we have entered a season of
massive change.
Fear
not the rumbling, for I will shake you out of the systems and paradigms that
have held the Church captive and I will cause you to be poured out in a whole
new way to the world. I am shaking the
Church and I am shaking the world. The
rumbling will not soon disappear until it has accomplished its full work to
shake the Church and to shake the world.
For I will have a meeting place with my people, and what is left when
the rumbling is done will be a people who release the kingdom of God on
earth. And the Church will be poured out
into the world. (Heb 12)
As
I was pondering this word, the Spirit of God fell on me and I wrote the rest of
this now, July 23, 2010.
I
am delivering you out of Babylon and I am delivering Babylon out of you. For I
will have a people in this hour who like Daniel stood within Babylon but
Babylon was not in him. At times fear will grip you like a vise and you will
wonder if you can withstand the fear. It will feel like terror will overtake
you.
But
I say to you it is part of the shaking, I am shaking you out of Babylon and
shaking Babylon out of you so that you can stand in the midst and rule. When
your shaking is complete, there will come a delivering mantle on you and you
will cause the gates of Babylon to shake and its walls will fall.
Fear not When Babylon Falls
Around you.
There
will be much rubble, but I will release you as I released Joseph and Daniel in
the midst of trouble and destruction. And I will deliver many who have been
captive in Babylon into your hands. They will see and recognize your deliverer.
And they will turn and bow their knee.
Position
yourselves, lift up your voices and praise. For like I delivered Jehoshaphat
and his people, I will deliver you. Arise Judah and begin to sing, sing like
Jehoshaphat's army did before the enemy. "Praise the Lord, for His mercy
endures forever." (2 Chron 20) The battle will rage, at times you will feel
like your mind will fail and your heart will faint. You will be overtaken with
unspeakable pain and turmoil. Listen not to the raging of the enemy and
tormenting fear within you. Your mind will not fail nor will your heart faint.
Stand
still and see the salvation of the Lord. Position yourselves. Lift up your hands
to the Lord and begin to sing, "praise the Lord, for His mercy endures
forever." Fear not what you see and feel for in the midst of the shaking I will
create a door of deliverance. Watch for the door. I will open the door of
deliverance (escape). Strength will overtake you and you will be transformed
into another man, one who has slipped out of the trap of death laid for you.
You will move with one step in front of the enemy and he will not overtake you.
Lift up your hands, lift up your voice, declare the goodness of the Lord in the
land of the living.
Keep
going, press all the way through, for as you worship I will break out with a
"revival spirit" upon you. When that revival spirit breaks out and spreads it
will create great light and many will run to it. (Isa 60:1-2) Don't stop, don't
give up. I am on the verge of pouring out a miraculous revival spirit upon you.
When that happens, every vise will release, every strong-hold will break, every
flooded river will part, no obstacle nor hindrance; nothing will be able to
deter you nor hold you back.
God
is here, He is at work and moving greatly behind the scenes. He is about ready
to pour out a miraculous revelation of His Son, Jesus. Christ in us the hope of
glory. Don't back up, don't sit down, don't run in panic or fear. Keep going
straight ahead. Radically worship your
way through this narrow place for the spirit of revival is about to overtake
you. You will know life and freedom as you have never known it before. And you
will be delivered into your place when the shaking is done.
Barbara Yoder
www.shekinahchurch.org