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One of the primary things the Lord spoke to me in the beginning of 2020 was that the body of Christ, at large, was in a time of recalibration. God also showed me a vision of a luxury car that looked very beautiful on the outside, however, it lacked momentum, endurance, stability and horsepower. The Father compared this car to His church and its desperate need for realignment. His church doesn't appear to be sluggish, drained, powerless or unstable, but it has been in need of attention to address what's going on, on the inside.
You can look at any nation in the world and see that the times we are living in are different. This is a season like no other season before in history. Now, more than ever, it is so important for every believer to be listening to the Holy Spirit and leaning into the Lord. Hearing from God and doing exactly what He says are critical in this hour. I recently had a prophetic dream where the demonic warfare was so intense that I could sense it even after I woke up.
Do you want to radiate God's glory everywhere you go? We each have an internal and external atmosphere. Our internal atmosphere is what we are filled with on the inside. Our external atmosphere is what we release around us. The external is an overflow of the internal. If we are cultivating a negative internal atmosphere, that is what we will release around us. If we allow anger and resentment to fill us on the inside, then eventually our external life and relationships will become full of conflict and turmoil.
Faith is not a mental attitude it is a powerful substance and creative force. It is an impartation of God's substance into a living man to bring things to pass here on earth. When God imparts faith (substance) into our spirit it becomes a reality existing in the realm of spirit. Faith is a power that takes hold of the unseen realm and creates a positive life of blessing and prosperity. Faith comes through a rhema word that imparts substance to us by God. The vision, image, or picture now exists in your heart. You see the thing hoped for or believed for and you speak it into being. Confess with the mouth and believe with the heart. Our tongue forms, controls, and defines your world.
I pray for our family that Jesus would truly the Lord of our lives. Many people know Him as Savior, but they don't know him as Lord. They don't follow him with a life of obedience – even using the grace of God as a ticket to sin. The problem is that some just don't understand the power of intimacy. They don't understand the power of the relationship. It's one thing to just talk to Jesus. It's another thing to listen to Him, commune and have that fellowship. It's a divine fellowship that God calls us to, rather than just an intellectual engagement. It's not about gathering a bunch of information. Okay° it's good to have a library. It's great to have a library.
Have you been dealing with spiritual warfare? Are you getting discouraged and overwhelmed with everything going on around you? Let's read Hebrews 10:11-17 (NASB): Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He (Jesus Christ), having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days," says the Lord: "I will put my laws upon their heart, and on their mind I will write them," He then says, "and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
A few years ago on my way to South Africa, I read in a magazine on the plane about whales. The article was a very long one so I gathered much knowledge about them. Next to me was a man that had visited and interacted with whales on more than one occasion. He didn't seem to know as much as the magazine yet there was a wonder in his eyes and an expression on his face as he told me about them, that captured me in a way that the magazine with all its knowledge and information never did. Once I arrived in South Africa I naturally went to the same place he spoke about where the whales come to mate and often come very close to the shore. I will never forget the first time I saw one of the huge sperm whales playing, jumping, splashing, and caring for its young.
This morning as I was doing my laundry, I was waiting for the spin cycle to complete. I began slowly walking back and forth praying in the Spirit. As I started walking the Holy Spirit showed me a picture of lions in a zoo pacing back and forth in their cage. They were agitated from being locked up, and wanting to be set free back into the wild. They were strong and muscular and when meat was thrown into their cage they devoured it. When they are released from captivity and get back out into the wild, they are going to take off running into the environment that they were created to live in.
The Name Jesus means "Salvation." If we were living in His time on earth, in His area, that is what we would have called Him: Salvation. We often name things after a meaning. It wasn't even that uncommon of a name because there were others who had the name Jesus we can read in the Bible, like Bar Jesus. That name still today is a common name also in other countries. But God was His Father in a special way and He named Him Salvation. Matthew 1:21 says to Joseph: "She [Mary] will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus [or Salvation], because he will save his people from their sins." That in itself is plenty to think about.
Earlier this year I had an afternoon in which I sat down and reread a classic book by Kenneth E. Hagin called, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage. For about four hours I read slowly and mediated on what Brother Hagin shared. In my opinion it's probably one of the best books ever written on the subject of marriage because it not only covers the natural relationship between husband and wife, but it also makes the spiritual connection between Christ and his spiritual bride, the Church. After reading the book in its entirety it was then nighttime so I went to sleep. Later that night I had a profound vision from the Lord which brought me further understanding of Christ's love for his bride, the Church.
