I thought it was about time to share a few perceptions about this very eventful season! Recently, I wrote and spoke about the sword of the tongue and the season of speaking to things that are relevant to our situations. Speak to the mountain!
"For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." Mark 11: 23, 24
I was reminded of this as I was laying in the ambulance enroute to the hospital last Sunday suffering from massive pain that seemed to be major chest pain. I remember laying there thinking that there is really nothing that I can say or do - I was flat on my back and all I could do was to cast my cares on Jesus. I pictured myself laying all my concerns on a table in His presence in heaven. During all of the testing (ultrasounds, blood work, MRI etc) in ER, I just felt the peace of resting in Him as there was nothing I could do. Thankfully the suspected aorta leak turned out to be an angry gallbladder which is bad enough.
Over the next few days in hospital, I was reflecting on this experience and the massive wave of preparation and fear taking place in relation to the Wuhan virus. What was going on as sometimes the things in the Spirit are reflected in the earth?
The first thing was that there seemed to be a concerted effort to shut down the VOICE OF THE TONGUE - personally, it was a real attack that left me resting in the Lord but I didn't feel I was taking territory and fulfilling the call of my earlier prophetic call. Corporately, churches were shutting down, communion was cancelled, fellowship was cancelled, commerce was cancelled and it seemed that the voice of the church globally had to bow to the will of a virus from China. Motivated to some extent by fear, governments were exercising elements of control seldom seen outside of a times of active war. Of course, normal precautions in the face of a virus such as this are sensible but it was drawing everyone into not looking at what God was wanting us to deal with and speak to and instead most people were speaking fear driven by the new global agenda.
What it seemed to me is that I was being attacked so that I would not speak out and the Body of Christ was being attacked and seduced into speaking about what the enemy was doing through the virus and the release of a global spirit of fear. Like the spies that went into the promised land we were speaking about the "Giant Viruses" not the Giant God.
By an act of my will, I had to begin to speak to everything that concerned me to take dominion and declare that God's will in heaven would be done in earth. I reminded God of His promises that no weapon formed against us would prosper and took the "flu shot" of Psalm 91.
So what has He whispered to me during this process. First, is that this is not going to be of long-standing devastation. It is serious but not "the big one". Also, that much of what was going on is a fear driven economic attack - the enemy is trying to set back the advances made in the last few years - to cause fear, panic and disruption and to take the narrative back from a church that was beginning to rise up to speak to the issues of the day.
OUR VOICE MUST RISE LOUDLY AT THIS TIME. NO QUARTER AND NO SURRENDER. WE MUST SPEAK LOUDLY SAYING WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY.
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