Monday, September 16, 2024

18 Days and 50 Days of Good News and Encouragement

    18 Days until Feast of Trumpets 2024-We need to be ready to leave this place

50 Days until election day 2024-We need to be ready to stay in order to bind and restrain all the activities of the enemy.

Whats the good news today?  The good news today is this does not have to be a fair fight.  We can overwhelm the enemy if we who are "called by His name" do what we are supposed to do and should have been doing all along.  The Lord God has placed before us life and death:

Deut 30

11“For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 14But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

15“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your Goda that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,b then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

Notice what this does not say...It does not say "if the enemy plots xyz against you," or "if the enemy spends untold billions to destroy you," or "if the enemy tries to decarbonize a leader," it says none of that.  What the enemy is trying to do or plan or scheme plays zero part in any of it.  Just like it says here:

2 Chron 7:14

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

I don't see anything about Bill Gates or the WEF or Herr Dr Evil Klaus Schwab in there ^^^.  Why?  They dont matter...What the Church does-thats what matters.  We are His children.  We are members of "the" royal household not just "a" royal household we see in this world.  We are going to decide this one way or another.  It is obvious to this writer that the Lord God would have us do what we should have been doing all along.  Surprising?  Not at all right?  Its obvious.  This nobody who is standing with you in prayer and fasting, in belief and binding and loosing-this nobody believes this is our season.  This servant beleives we will watch with our eyes and see our enemy's defeated in this battle:

Ps 31

19Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of the children of mankind!
20In the cover of your presence you hide them
from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter
from the strife of tongues.

21Blessed be the Lord,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was in a besieged city.
22I had said in my alarm,b
“I am cut off from your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.

23Love the Lord, all you his saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the Lord!

The story we are living in is in many ways an old story.  When you read the Psalms of David you see his thoughts and prayers reveal an almost identical situation as our own.  The great news today is the solution then is the solution now.  He is our solution:

20In the cover of your presence you hide them
from the plots of men;

His presence and His power are the solution.  Empty dead buildings with an organization made by men plastered to the side of it does not constitute the Church.  The Church is the living breathing organic living organism filled with His presence and His power and that my friends is a real big problem for the enemy.  We are being called to rise up into the fulness of the vision and mission the Lord God has for each of our lives, and we can be assured its not boring.  We are being called to be the 100% version of ourselves-the hall of fame versions of ourselves.  We can do this because nobody can be you like you can.  All of the tools, talents, gifts, abilities are already in you or available to you.  If you dont have something that the hall of fame version of yourself needs-go get it...

What does the 100%, hall of fame version of you look like?  What decisions do they make?  Figure this stuff out, if you dont know pray about it and find out then do it.  The very best version of you is required for the days, weeks and months ahead.  At the end of this journey we want to hear this:

Matt 25

21His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.e You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.

We could be headed for harpazo/rapture or staying and restraining-either way it doesnt matter to this call and this rising up into the best versions of ourselves.  It is a Matt 25 thing that this servant first heard around 2020 when the scamdemic and the rest of this nonsense really began in earnest-the Spirit of the Lord was directing us on a course where we would arrive here.  Now the call is to press into the fulness of what we were designed to be.  

Continue to fight the good fight of faith.  Your prayers and your faith are working out what we are believing for.  Now we stand on it and bring it in, from Heaven down to this earth.  The Lord our God is very great.  Keep bringing it, be relentless.

Glory to God

grace and peace