Your Divine Mix : Discerning God's Voice

I wanted to share some keys on how to discern God's voice more clearly in this season. Below you will find one that I hope will help you flow in this amazing gift more while also dispelling some misconceptions that may be holding you back.

God Speaks To You In Various Ways

I don't know who started this way or thinking or behavior but there are many people who try to limit the way God speaks to them to just one way.

"I'm a seer" "I only feel things" "I only hear things" or "God only speaks to me when the clock on my phone shows 5:55" That last one I'm only partially joking.

Part of this way of thinking can be connected to different times when certain ways of hearing God were "in-vogue" I can remember for a time that those that heard a small voice in their spirit were looked down upon by others that had dreams. Still yet, those that had visions condescended to the dreamers because, well the vision people had to do more work while the dreamers just had to sleep through everything. And of course, all three of these kinds of people had to bend the knee and kiss the ring of the one that had angelic visitations. It's so funny the things we compete with in the Church.

I want to encourage you that God doesn't communicate to you in just ONE way. One of the most beautiful things about God is how He creates a unique mix for each of His children on how He speaks and communicates to them. Part of learning to hear God is discovering what your unique mix is and having the sensitivity to notice it in whatever way it comes. In God there is expansion, forward movement and rivers that spring forth with life. Why then should we expect God to talk to us in the same old way day in and day out? It makes no sense and this improper belief has robbed people of the full color and vibrance of God's communication to them. Don't let that be you.

THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE FULL MIX OF YOUR ABILITY TO HEAR GOD

1. Ask Him

So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Matthew 7:11 (NASB)

This seems basic but it's something most people don't dare to do. Most people don't receive from God because they don't even ask Him. Don't let the lie of unworthiness keep you from your portion. Ask God to expand and sharpen your ability to hear Him. If you want to have more visions, or dreams, ask Him.

2. Desire Earnestly (Unwaveringly, unrelentingly, increasing in your fire to attain it as time goes on)

Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

I Corinthians 14:39

Prophecy is the one thing in the Bible that God commands us to covet. That is how much intensity He wants us to have in our pursuit of His voice. For many of us, the intensity of our pursuit to hear His voice looks more like a game of hop-scotch than it does a man wide-eyed and frantic in his pursuit to fill an addiction. Intensity and deep desire helps with the third component.

3. Allow Your Eyes to Be Opened

The desire and earnest burning to attain what God wants to give you causes your senses to be awakened to see God wherever and whenever He presents Himself. When you combine these three things, you will find yourself swimming in an ocean of His voice.

Best,

David

Interpreting What Prophets Prophesy Corporately

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.” 1 Corinthians 13:9

The Danger Lies Not In the Prophecies You Do Not Understand, Rather in the Ones That You Think You Do But Actually Don’t

One role of a prophet is to discern what God is saying to His people amount what He is doing in the earth. Comically, sometimes what they discern and release requires a good amount of discernment and interpretation as well. There have been many prophetic words that I’ve received or heard where both the prophet and myself scratch our heads not really having a clear picture in the moment of what it means. Those are times when we have to dig deeper and seek the Holy Spirit to illuminate the meaning to us. It’s common sense to do this when prophetic words don’t make sense. However the danger lies when we don’t default to this because the prophecy we hear or receive seems so clear and unmistakable that we feel we already know all we need to know about it.

For example, you could receive a prophetic word that seems to fit point for point the family situation that you are having to deal with right now. This can cause us to immediately and without thinking, apply it to the situation that it seems most logically lines up with it. However it could actually apply to a season that is yet to happen. Or it could not relate to your family situation at all but be fore someone else’s family situation that you will be able to help with. It is important to not take for granted our own natural ability to discern a prophetic word and avoid leaning on the illumination of the Holy Spirit to help us properly understand and apply it.

Prophets Can Fall For This Too

Prophets fall into this pitfall too. Sometimes when we receive revelation it can feel like we are strapped into a fully immersive experience. Things seem so clear, so charged, so alive that it feels like we are living the reality of the prophetic word in real time. This is amazing, however this can mislead a prophet into feeling that they know with absolute certainty what it is that God is saying.

We Are All Given a Piece, But Rarely the Whole

The key to help keep us safe from this pitfall and trap can be found in 1 Corinthians which was quoted at the beginning of this post. Our understanding of what God is saying even through prophecy is only partial. Our natural understanding and even our spiritual understanding is only a piece of the full pie of understanding what God is saying. In other words, no one person is going to have the entire interpretation. We must lean on the Holy Spirit to help us fully understand.

I feel this is very important to go over during this very charged season of corporate, national and worldwide prophetic words that are being released by prophets from all over the globe.

In a time where hundreds and thousands of prophetic words are being released every single month, it is important that we take the time to seek God and properly discern and interpret what He is saying personally through His prophets for ourselves.

We cannot farm out this important part of our prophetic life to others, even if they are prophets. The reason for this is that ultimately, we alone are responsible for how we walk out this prophetic word in our personal lives. The excuse, “well, prophet XYZ didn’t explain or interpret it the right way for me, that’s why I didn’t carry it out correctly” is not going to be valid when we account for how we steward the words of God.

Do not allow how specific a prophetic word appears to be, prevent you from discerning for yourself what God is saying in the midst of it and also how it is to apply to you. Again, prophets are not infallible and they only see in part, it’s up to us to lean on the Holy Spirit to illuminate our part of the pie to us.

Keys to Interpreting Corporate, Worldwide or National Prophetic Words

We will discuss keys for personal prophetic words in the future but I want to give you a few important questions you need to ask the Holy Spirit when you come across prophetic words on social media, email and on television that are meant to address large groups of people that you relate to. For example, there are a lot of prophecies that have and continue to go out regarding the election in the United States. Another example are those words that start out like, “I feel that the Body of Christ needs to…” or something along those lines.

These will help keep you from being overwhelmed by all these prophetic words, confused by them and also help you be able to understand how they are to apply to you personally. The key to hearing from God is your ability to step out and faith and hear Him. So when you ask God these questions, step out in faith and be ready to write down what He tells you even if it does not make sense initially. Take note of it, pray on it and watch God expand the answer in your spirit and into your understanding.

Question #1: Is this a prophetic word I should be paying attention to RIGHT now?

• if the answer is no, then go ahead and file it away. Don’t let it take up any more current headspace.

• if the answer is yes, then move on to question #2.

Question #2: What portions of this prophetic word are You highlighting for me to pay attention to?

• often times there are only portions of this corporate word that God is applying to you

• take what He highlights and separate them out from the rest of it. It’s not that the rest couldn’t apply later on, but we are trying focus on the first things first.

Question #3: How do these portions apply to me? What are you saying about these sections to me?

• allow God to show you what He is saying personally to you out of these portions.

• also, if the word is speaking about things that are to come to pass or take place, allow Him to speak to you about the timing of these things.

Question #4: What do you want me to do with this revelation?

• our responsibility to act on what God is saying is very important. Equally important is that we act in the right way.

• sometimes God shows us these things simply to pray about them. Other times there are specific actions that He wants us to take regarding them.

• This will give convert a prophetic word into a tangible action plan for you. Now instead of having a mountain or prophetic words, you now have a Holy Spirit-inspired strategy on how to move forward.

Hopefully these four questions will help you be able to filter though the deluge of prophetic words that are out there and also spark a deeper dialogue with God. Sometimes we can get overloaded with all of the words coming into our lives that we find ourselves being pulled in a thousand different directions. My heart is that this will help you pierce through the overload and uncover the main core of what God is saying for you personally in the midst of these prophetic words.

A thousand prophetic words spoken is good, however one single prophetic word, paired with strategic, God-inspired action is often much more impactful. As we know in part and prophesy in part, we need to remember that our main focus should be doing our part. It is God that is going to be responsible to carry out the whole.

Strength in Brokenness

10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” 11 So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.

John 21:10-11

We are continuing with John 21 and the prophetic insights it holds for the times we are in. I invite you to refer back to the previous posts to get the most out of this one.

The Strength of 10 Men

Jesus invites them to bring some of their catch to join him by the fire. I love how extra Peter is in this moment. The operating word that Jesus uses is “some fish” and yet Peter decides that he must with his own bare hands, drag an entire net of fish to the shore to where Jesus is. You have to love Peter.

Math wasn’t my favorite class in school but firing up the calculator, at 153 fish at an average of 3 pounds each equals roughly 459 pounds. That’s some major strength demonstrated by a man that just a few hours earlier was fishing with no clothes on in the pit of depression.

Moving Through Pain

The advice many give us when we are going through a dark season is to keep on going in spite of what you feel. Someone puts a hand on our shoulder and offers something along the lines of “we move from glory to glory but boy, it’s hell in the hallway.”

This is only part of the equation to getting through a broken season. The other part of this puzzle is knowing who you are moving through the brokenness to get to. Your “WHY” behind moving past your pain is not to bring the pain to an end, it is meant to lead you towards the ONE that seeks to bring you wholeness.

Sometimes we think we are moving past our pain when we are really just avoiding the brokenness until the pain passes.

Strength to Pursue Jesus in the Midst of Brokenness

Paul, second only to Judas, was the disciple that was in the toughest spot. He had denied Jesus three times and everyone knew it. He was wrapped in shame and in a tremendous amount of pain. However when he hears Jesus beckoning them to come eat with him, the boats cannot get him to shore fast enough so he jumps out hauling a massive amount of fish with him.

Paul was endowed with supernatural strength (over 400 lbs of fish in a net all of which were most likely swimming and flailing frantically to get away. Think about the scene from the movie Nemo of all the fish swimming together to break the net) in his pursuit to get to Jesus.

Hear What Jesus is Saying and Receive an Impartation of Power

You might be feeling more aware of your shortcoming and brokenness now than ever before. I encourage you that it is especially in a season like this that Jesus’ voice is closer to you than ever before and He wants to share with you things that beckon you closer to Him. Not just for relationship but also because in that point of connection, there is tremendous healing, above and beyond just an ending the pain you might be feeling. There is also an impartation of strength for you to run to where His voice beckons to encounter Him. You aren’t to do this on your own, you aren’t to trudge and claw and scratch uphill to get to Him. He isn’t cruel, He isn’t a tyrant, He is a loving savior that wants to bring you freedom.

In Jesus’ name I declare that today, it is Your heart Lord, to make your voice known to your people. I ask you to speak to them so clearly that it will be unmistakable that it is you calling them through.

Right now, raise your hands up and declare that you are receiving that fresh impartation of strength to run to Him. Now RUN!!!!

Seeing Jesus in the Dark

John 21:7

“Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord…”

In this week’s writing about John 21 and the prophetic revelation and strategy that it holds for this season, we pick up the story of Peter, John and some of the other disciples as they return from a long, cold and ultimately unfruitful fishing trip.

If you haven’t checked out the post from last week, I encourage you to check that out before continuing however for those that just want to dive in, remember that the story begins with the disciples that are still discouraged and in anguish. Even though they have seen an empty tomb and many of their friends have witnessed Jesus having risen, they are still broken from the trauma of what has taken place. Peter especially is going though it because regardless of whether Jesus has risen or not, he’s in the dog house in his own mind. If Jesus had not risen, his leader, friend and the only one that truly understood him was gone. If Jesus had indeed been resurrected, how could he face the one that he so adamantly and devoutly denied not once, not twice but three times? Rock and a hard place indeed. (You see what I did there? #biblicaldadjokes)

Peter and a few others, in the pressure cooker of an uncertain future and a less than stellar week, take to what is easily accessible and familiar…which produced NOTHING.

On their return trip from this exercise in futility is where we see another golden nugget of revelation come.

Discerning Jesus, and Your Breakthrough in the Dark Night of the Soul

It’s dark out, the disciples are cold, wet and miserable. While it is of their own doing, they have caught nothing. A man calls to them from the shore and asks them if they had caught anything. They tell the truth about their catch and say no, which for a fisherman to be wholly honest about his catch means things must be pretty bleak.

The figure tells them to put their nets on the right side of the boat. Wait a second, this sounds familiar. There was another time long ago when an upstart Rabbi asked them, after a fruitless night of fishing, to also cast their nets down.

4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, y“Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, zwe toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, athey enclosed a large number of fish, and atheir nets were breaking. Luke 5:4-6 ESV

I’m sure the disciples’ ears were perked at this, remembering the events from long ago. They cautiously place their nets in the water. Sure enough, just as before, their nets creak from the massive amount of fish in their nets. As they fight to hang on to the catch, John, the one who leaned his head on the chest of Jesus, gasps, “It is the Lord”

Hearing this, Peter leaps into the water and heads towards the man on the shore. They saw something familiar in the encounter they were currently in and that educated the way in which they should respond. That response, based on what Jesus had done with them years earlier, positioned them to be obedient in the moment of darkness and turn around their failure into a massive harvest.

Remember Your History with Jesus

In this moment, things are not going according to what many of us expected. We look back at our prophetic words and scratch our heads asking, “did I miss something?” These are the moments when we should take inventory of all that we have gone through in our prophetic journey with Jesus so far. Many of us think that we have this continually in the forefront of our minds, until we sit down with pen and paper and begin to list all the things we have walked with Jesus in just the last six months let alone years. When we do this, we become ultra sensitive to the whispers of the Holy Spirit beckoning us to realize we are in a divine moment.

A helpful activation is this:

1. List the top 5 things that God has spoken over your life.

2. Think of situations over the last 6 months where God has either confirmed or opened up opportunities in those 5 things. List them as sub-points under your main headings which are the 5 things.

3. Ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate situations and moments that you had not previously known were Him moving on your behalf in those 5 things. List them.

4. Allow God to show you how you responded and interacted with Him in those moments. Allow Him to teach you ways in which you could have been more aware or sensitive. Allow God to immerse you in this so you come to a whole new awareness of His hand on your life. Write this out in detail. Don’t remain on the surface, have the curiosity to ask the deeper questions and the courage to sit and hear the answer.

5. Go about your daily life with these now-heightened spiritual senses. Pay attention to all that happens and take note of how they confirm and open the way for those main themes that God has spoken over your life.

There is nothing especially unique or original about this activation, one simply needs to read about King David’s prayer life of meditating on the thoughts and words of God (Psalms 139:17) to know that this has been around for a long time. This practice which served the greatest King Israel would most certainly help all of us in recognizing Jesus in the midst of our dark season and serve as a light house to lead us to the other side.

Life Boats or Destiny Anchors

John 21:3

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately and that night they caught nothing.

Beware of Destiny Anchors Masquerading as Life Boats.

Setting the stage, the verse above happens after Jesus has been resurrected and showed Himself to some of the disciples. However in this chapter, we see that sorrow and despair is still very much what Simon Peter and several other disciples are living under. They are down, dejected, isolated and despondent.

Peter is in an especially dark place. He saw Jesus whom he loved, hung on a cross. Beyond his affection for Jesus as a mentor and friend, He represented the entirety of Peter’s hopes and future. As if that were not enough, his own personal failings had compounded things even more. In Jesus’ darkest hour, he had denied him not once, not twice, but three times.

It is in this moment, that Peter declares that he is going fishing. Curious that of all the things Peter could do, he chooses to return to something that resembles his past life. The verse takes care to point out that they went into the boat “immediately”. Funny how in our darkest moments, our past is always eagerly available to us, beckoning us into the embrace of familiarity.

FRUITLESSNESS

The writer makes a point to tell us the grand total of the disciples night of fishing. Zero, zilch, nada, nothing, goose egg. In our effort to reduce the pressure of the moment or to try and gain a foothold in an out-of-our control situation, if we retreat to the familiar or what may have worked in the past season, we make a covenant with fruitlessness. This is the opposite of what God wants for us. Momentary relief will come at a huge price. As we see in this story, the only way to the other side of something, is by confronting it face to face.

FAMILIAR AND AVAILABLE DOES NOT = DIVINE OPPORTUNITY

Many will be deceived into selling their birthright in the marketplace of the familiar and the comfortable. Be careful in this season when doors begin to open to you. Discern whether what is opening before you is exciting and feels good because it is the Holy Spirit leading you or whether it is because it looks familiar and comfortable and along the lines of what you have been called to before and in your own assessment, being the next logical step.

DO NOT GET INTO THE BOAT

When you are on the verge of stepping into your new season of promise, it is a very tumultuous moment. You will find yourself in a sea of activity happening around you, underneath you, above you and inside of you. Still yet, others on the verge will find themselves in a moment where they perceive everything is pointing to the death of their destiny and future rather than to the beginning of it. It is in these moments that God is saying, “Do not back away from your promise or your future”

DO NOT DISQUALIFY YOURSELF

Peter has disqualified himself from his destiny and future but not in the way you might think. It is not his actions that have done this, it is his own assessment of who he is and how royally he has messed things up.

When things are crazy, we are rarely the best versions of ourselves. We say things we don’t mean, we do things we aren’t proud of, and for many of us, much of our time is spent rehashing ways that we could done things better. This results in us declaring to ourselves, “You know what, maybe this isn’t for me. Who would want me now? Who could use me now?”

In getting in the boat, Peter is declaring to himself and the other disciples that he is not worthy of the investment that Jesus had placed on him. When he immediately gets into that boat, he is giving up on his future.

EMBRACE THE GRACE

It is in this dark place that Jesus must intervene to save Peter from this difficult season of self sabotage. We have the benefit of being able to read ahead in the story and see the beautiful way in which Jesus leads Peter out of his shame and into his future as a pillar in the Church that is about to be birthed into existence. If we have not behaved the best in our season of transition, if we wish we could have done things differently or flat out failed, we have to be willing to embrace the grace that Jesus wants to extend to us.

This will be one of the hardest things we have to do in this season but it is essential if we are to trade in our anchors for sails. (sorry that was really cliche)

I encourage you to take some time out to allow God to illuminate areas in your prophetic process that you might need to grab a hold of His grace and let go of some toxic beliefs about yourself and how you’ve been doing that have been keeping you from transitioning into the new. Also, my prayer for you is that God would illuminate your eyes with a greater level of discernment in this season to see from His perspective how to navigate as doors open to you.

God Doesn't Do Re-Runs

Over the next few weeks, I'm excited to share with you some key prophetic insights from John 21. It is a rich chapter especially in the context of where we are. The story in this chapter is after the death and resurrection of Jesus, however it is a scene where the disciples are still in a state of mourning and scattering. What happens in these verses serves as a prophetic strategy for us to be able to come out of 2020 as warriors and overcomers.

Bad Habits

In order to do this we have to be willing to break some bad habits and mindsets that may have been taught to us in a previous season. My first violin teacher was Mrs Warfield. This lady was awesome! Every time I played a few notes correctly, out came a large bag of M&M's and a few pieces would be placed in a paper cup on my music stand with my name on it. On my way out of her house, I would take a few swings at a whiffle ball tied to a string off her front porch and give her elderly, morbidly obese golden retriever and gentle pat on his head.

One fateful day my mother told me that I had just had my final lesson with Mrs Warfield and that the following week I would be with a new teacher. I had hit a wall and wasn't getting better. It only took a few minutes for my teacher to declare "David, you've got some bad habits we got to deal with" Turning to my Asian mother who was sitting very tense as if fearing a terminal diagnosis she said "these bad habits are getting in the way of his development. Don't worry, once we fix them, he's going to be off to the races"

My mother was relieved as her dreams of me becoming a world class violin playing neurosurgeon millionaire doctor remained on course. After 12 months of breaking bad habits and learned playing patterns, I joined my first college orchestra at the age of 12 years old.

God wants to set us up for a period of rapid acceleration and advancement, however adjustments to our mindset, our perception and our posture have to be made.

We will address this in our first post in this series and then with those fresh eyes we will dive into John 21 regarding the prophetic strategy for this season.

Sunshines, Rainbows and Clear Skies Ahead

Before the start of 2020, many people were saying how this was going to be the most triumphant year the Body of Christ had ever seen. Themes included "20/20 Vision for 2020," "prosper in 2020", "2020 the beginning of the greatest revival in human history". It was all over Christian websites and on the blogs of many prominent prophetic voices. While I found these sensings very encouraging, I was hesitant to wholeheartedly agree with the picture that many were painting of the days to come. This runs opposite to my nature as a human being.

I'm going to get transparent with you about one of my greatest shortcomings as a human being. With diligence and perseverance, I have gotten better, however in moments of weakness or great overwhelm, it will rare it's ugly head. Sigh, here it goes, the truth is that... I will fall for almost anything.

I am the person that buys stuff off of informercials, gets on the waiting lists for products that I see online. When people create Super Bowl ads, they are thinking of me. I bought DVD's before I even owned a DVD player. My wife has told me that I am not allowed to go to any timeshare resort sales meetings with her when we are on vacation because salesmen can sniff out that kind of weakness.

I am not naturally skeptical about anything. I've been known to enjoy a Youtube marathon or two about conspiracy theories because hey, there might be some truth in there after all. This is why when all these words were being released, it was odd to me that nothing lept inside of me like, "oh my goodness yes that's it! Let's do it!" I didn't paint my body blue, I didn't jump around the house, and I didn't google how to purchase middle eastern currency.

Instead, I felt, silence, I felt a hollowness in what was being said. When I got to the root of it, much of what was being said, had an opposite effect on me. It placed a sour taste in my mouth. And then, rumblings came from the East.

With all these prophetic sensings about entering into a season of triumph, many of us were taken by surprise and felt like we had woken up to an alternate reality. I was one of them. We are deep into 2020 and all signs seem to be pointing to the opposite of what we were expecting.

Even worse, in the United States, churches have not only remained the same, most of them are fighting for their right to even open, hold services and freely worship. When all words in 2019 were that 2020 would mark the start of one of the greatest expansions in The Church, tens of thousands of churches are shutting their doors as rulers, leaders, and communities deem them not only non-essential, but harmful to their health and wellbeing. Even more outrageous are churches that have even taken grants from the state to cover overhead and payroll in exchange for their commitment to hold no in-person gatherings or meetings until their state tells them they are allowed to. Alternate reality indeed.

With all that has happened, it is natural for all of us to look sideways at those prophetic words from just a few months ago, I know I did. Did I feel that these voices were wrong for proclaiming these things? No. Do I think that they heard incorrectly? No. I actually believe that what they heard is something that is truly in God's heart. However where it got twisted was in their interpretation and commentary on what the expression would look like.

This Ain't Your Momma's Chicken Pot Pie

Just because Momma made a good pot pie doesn't mean that it's the best it's ever gonna' get. Nostalgia can get you to forget that Momma actually got that off a Swanson’s truck. If you go in with that nostalgic, romanticized, closed mindset, when your wife makes you pot pie and it doesn't taste like your childhood and you decide to verbalize as much, you might find yourself relegated to a steady diet of hot pockets and Little Caesars pizza until the second coming.

In regards to what was being prophesied and shared, they felt more like personal imaginations and assumptions as to what God was saying would come to pass based on past moves of God and what they had experienced in their lives in previous seasons. In fact, reading some of the transcripts, you see phrases like “A new Jesus Movement” “a Third Pentacost” “Just like God did in the times of Smith Wigglesworth”. A lot of pointing to past moves going on.

More moves of God have been derailed by people trying to fit it into a box of the past than from any demonic attack of the devil.

As a prophetic people, we have to be careful when we attempt to draw approximations from what we see God doing in the future to what we have experienced in the past. Yes there can be similarities but if we are not careful, we will cause those we are prophesying to, to look in the wrong direction for the wrong thing. It's like someone inviting you to go on a picnic only to realize that you're actually getting ready to step into the ring to do 9 rounds with Mike Tyson. Not cool. I believe that this lapse has caused a lot of people in the Body of Christ to be confused, discouraged and even downright frustrated.

So here is the main takeaway I want to share with you in this post::::::

God does not do re-runs, he does not do sequels. God is Doing a New Thing!

Our Father in Heaven composes epic, multi-faceted symphonies that build one measure after another towards an epic crescendo that causes every nation to bow its knee in awe of His greatness, might and limitless love. With every season, He declares from His throne over His people, "You Haven't Seen Anything Like What I'm About to Do!"

When we know that God is going to do something we haven't seen before, we move from a position of observation and contemplation into a posture or readiness to engage for whatever comes. I call this active expectation for the unexpected.

For example, if I told you that on the other side of that door, was your friend that had just stepped out a few minutes ago, you would take on a certain posture. But if I told you that what was coming through that same door was not like anything you had ever seen before, notice how your posture becomes much much different. Active expectation for the unexpected.

Family, I want to encourage you that if you have felt discouraged because things have not turned out like what people had prophesied or how you thought it was going to come to pass, please shake off that heaviness and know that God is doing a new thing! With that are going to come a lot of growing pains and learning new things in order to be ready to contain all that He is pouring out in this season.

Now, with that in mind, let our hearts our minds and our soul recalibrate to how the Holy Spirit is saying we need to flow, bend and roll in order to be positioned for the future. Let’s look with anticipation at what all this uncertainty only seeks to remind us of, that we are not in Kansas anymore and that’s a good thing. (Unless you currently live in Kansas to being with… in which case..)

In my next post, I will be sharing about the importance of remembering your prophetic history in a way that propels you into your future rather than keeping you in your past.