A Word In Season: The Year To Run With The Horses

This is an abridgement of what the Lord has revealed to me personally. If He allows me to subsequently, I will dive deeper into some of the details – let me speak only when He tells me, so I may be found trustworthy to carry His secrets. What I’m about to share is just a small puzzle piece (no one person has the full picture), so do search out what He’s been saying to others (especially the prophets + apostles) to get a fuller picture of what’s on His heart for this year!

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Beloved, this is the year to run with the horses.

Those who wait on Me and remain faithful to obey Me will soar. They will accomplish more in this year than any other year before.

Now is the time for the mature children to prevail. My tenacious ones who don’t give up, who persist. The faithful ones who set their face toward the goal and do not relent till it comes to pass.

This is the hour for the warrior spirit to arise, the sons of the Lion of Judah! This is what I’m doing in the 3 groups of warriors:

  1. READY. These are the prepared warriors who’ve been faithful and obedient through My processes in their lives. I am going to launch them like a missile into enemy territory. They will be sent with My presence and power to bring light to the darkness. They have been faithful with what I’ve given them, and I am about to give them so much more.
  2. REST. These are the weary/wounded warriors who’ve been in the battlefield. I am going to call them tenderly to rest in Me. As they sit at My feet, their strength will be restored. But more than that, they will begin to receive much new revelation that they will then take back to the people. Let them come and sit with Me awhile.
  3. RECALIBRATE. These are the warriors who are lost or wandered off the path. I am going to interrupt their journey and bring them back to My plans for them. They will experience Hosea 2. I will speak to them tenderly, break off the things that hinder, and give them a new heart and a new mind. I will pursue them; no one is too far gone that My love cannot find.

This is the year to excel and ascend. Cultivate that spirit of excellence. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky  as you hold firmly to the word of life (Philippians 2).

I will grow your influence and enlarge your territory. Abide in Me, let Me abide in you. Only with My presence will you produce fruit that lasts.

This is the year for the workers in the field, the ones who have pledged their allegiance to the Lord of hosts and served Him with unwavering resolve. I will come and be with My faithful servants, and I will empower them to do far greater things than they could’ve ever imagined.

This is the year that My five-fold must come further together in unity. Team work and brotherly love is needed. The coming harvest is going to be so great that no one man can do it alone. Gone are the days of the Christian Superstars — I am doing away with the “one man” ministry. These are the days of the ministry of the saints, My sons and daughters who seek My kingdom and not their glory.

This is the year that the nameless, faceless, rank-less, army of the Lord will be raised up. A company of people who fear only the Lord, whose eyes look only to Him, and who march in unity without breaking rank. Remove pride that exalts itself against Me. Remove the human wisdom that rises up against My wisdom. For My ways are above your ways, My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40)

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How To Walk In The Supernatural

Walking the supernatural life is God’s will for you every single day.

May we be so bold as to make this declaration over you today?

God wants heaven to invade your little slice of earth 24/7. He wants to take your reality and straight up osmosize it with Heaven’s reality. His will is to create a very literal heaven-on-earth, just for you.

He loves you so much and desires to dwell, His Spirit in the heart of man. So today, let’s dig a little deeper into how you can walk in the supernatural daily.

There is a depth in the heart of God that no man or angel can ever fully fathom.  But the awesome, humbling fact-of-the-matter is that God desires to reveal His secrets to men.  Secrets that even the angels long to look into.

“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” — Proverbs 25: 2

And God is searching for men and women He can fully trust with His heart + presence.

He is searching for faithful + obedient people to be trustworthy carriers of the treasures of God.

Walking in the supernatural is firstly by the grace of God (we cannot go to Him unless He first calls us), but there is also a process that requires faithfulness + obedience on our part.

“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the groundand dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

— John 12: 24

1. Falling to the Ground:  Changing of Wrong Mindsets

This could also be called the “Infant stage” in a believers’ journey.  Much like caring for an infant or a budding flower, this is a stage that is full of the Father’s grace and protectiveness.  The believer’s spirit is not yet mature and strong enough to take rigorous disciplines, and therefore it is mostly nurtured, fed and nourished at this point.  It is a season where the believer’s heart, mind, and spirit are being prepared and made ready for the journey ahead.  God does this by revealing 1) who He is, and 2) who they are.

At this stage, there is a very strong emphasis on the unconditional love of God for the person.  This is not self-centeredness, but a vital part to the healing of the heart.  Restoration work is done in the heart and mind. God will begin to surface issues of self-rejection, shame, unforgiveness, pride, etc., and bring healing + restoration in those areas.  While for natural healing and the restoration of the body using methods like basic cell morphology can be great for this.

This healing and restoration process is necessary because it would be impossible for anyone to submit to a God they cannot trust. And in order to trust God, we must know who He is and who we are in Him.

To put it succinctly, the key word at this stage is “Identity”.  When we begin to understand His identity and therefore begin to discover our identity, the desire to walk close to Him will burst forth in our hearts!  That is the power of the love of God.  This is exactly how Jesus taught His disciples too!  Jesus repeatedly assured His disciples of their value to God, then He would urge them to do the two things crucial to walking in the supernatural — have absolute faith in God (now that you know your identity in Him) + seek first His Kingdom (now that you know you can trust your life to God).

When our identity and relationship with God is built on the right foundation, we are ready to move to the next level.

*If you are reading this and feel the desire to get healed + restored, you can find out more about our prophetic counseling ministry here.

2. Dying:  Surrendering Our Will to His Will

Growing into our identity as God’s Beloved goes hand-in-hand with submitting our will to the will of God.  It’s a package deal, so to speak, because that is the picture of a beloved.

Song of Solomon 8:5 says, “Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover?”

This is the picture of true lovers — the Lover who offers the strength of His arm, and the beloved who rests in her Lover’s strength.  When we understand our Beloved-ness, surrendering to God is no longer a chore but a joy and a delight!

This submitting of our will to God’s will can also be called “voluntary helplessness”. The above-mentioned scripture takes place as the lovers are coming out of the desert — that is often the place that God takes us so we learn to lean on Him.  In the desert, there are no resources, status, people, etc., only God.  It is there that God teaches us how to let go of human reasoning, wisdom, and agenda; in short, dying to self.  This is just like in Hosea 2, where God pursues His beloved till she has nowhere else to turn to except Him.

The fire and desert are part of God’s beautiful mercy + deep love for us.  He loves us too much to let us go.

However, this stage of fire and/or desert will not make sense if we do not understand that it happens because we are so beloved. Most who did not press through stage 1 will not last long in this stage, because they might fall under confusion/condemnation thinking that God is a religious deity with a huge cane in His hand, ready to smack them every time they make a mistake.  Or they might think that God has abandoned them.  Both ways lead to a religious mindset.  Religiosity is the work of man and the flesh, which is man relating to God according to man’s plans, instead of man living by God’s plans.

A few years back, the Spirit of God stopped me in the middle of prayer, and He said, “My people ask for My Glory to come; they ask for revival and the outpouring of My Holy Spirit.  But do not ask for this so flippantly as you might ask for a toy – the Glory of God is not something that comes lightly.”

The double meaning to “the Glory of God is not something that comes lightly” is that 1) the Glory of God is not subject to man’s whim and fancy – He is not an ATM machine! And 2) the Glory of God is not a fluffy, flighty thing – when it comes, it also brings with it judgment of all that is unholy, for our God is a consuming fire.

There is a cost to host the glory of God. But what great reward awaits for those who willingly pay the price to lay hold of His Kingdom!

3. Bearing Much Fruit:  The Fruit of A Surrendered Life

We can only bear fruit when we abide in Christ, becoming empty + taking on His fullness. The fruit we bear will be nourishment for a dying world.  In these days more than ever, the world desperately needs the Church to bring heaven to earth.

God’s presence and the supernatural go hand-in-hand.  We cannot find God without finding also the powers of heaven invading our life and the lives of others through us.

In our pursuit of the supernatural life, it is important to note that the supernatural should point to the God of miracles, not to the miracle itself.  God’s works should never replace God.

Another important reminder is that the fruit of the Spirit must grow alongside the gifts of the Spirit.  Character sustains the anointing.  This can be seen in the life of Joseph, who had tremendous calling but did not have the maturity and wisdom to handle it in his youth. We are disciplined by God in the area of character because He wants us to succeed!  He wants us to be able to sustain the anointing, and to finish the race well.

Let a new breed arise in our generation and the one to come – a people on fire for God, touching heaven + changing earth.  Greater things are coming which the earth has not yet seen!  Let the Body of Jesus get trained + prepared!

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My Confession

Today I make a public confession. I want to be authentic in my weakness so that His strength shines through to you, can I do that?

A few days ago, the Lion of Judah walked into my room. He walked in – a majestic lion – perfect in form, a beautiful golden-brown, so noble in His bearing.

Without words He said to my heart, “Come away with Me for awhile.” He asked me to walk with Him because He wanted to show me something important, as He often does whenever He appears to me as the Lion.

He stood there watching me, patient, waiting. And without skipping a beat this headstrong wilful “godly woman” (hah!) said, “No. I’m too busy right now.”

He stood there looking at me for a long while, His expression so gentle yet sad and grave. Then He silently turned and walked away.

I felt His sadness – it was weighty but unimposing. He was gentle and wouldn’t force me where I didn’t want to go. It seemed so easy to turn away from Him.

I was so caught up in my busyness that I only realized my wrong when Alex, upon hearing about my day, asked with the most incredulous look on his face, “You said NO to the Lion of Judah?! GOD appeared to you, gave you a PERSONAL INVITATION, and you said NO?!!”

Whump whump. If ever there was a right moment to use OMG, that would’ve been it.

I had rejected His heart, yet He didn’t devour me. He had chosen to share His secret with me, and I had said “no thank you” with the petulance of a self-absorbed child.

I’d taken what other warriors had fought so hard to win, and tossed it aside with the flippant indifference of a child.

And I am so sorry.

I had been taking Him for granted for a really long time and thought it was spiritual piety.

I had been living like these ones Jesus spoke about — “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” (Matthew 15:8)

I’d just launched the abide + thrive collection, but obviously had so much more to learn about abiding + thriving.

I am humbled once more.

I woke up yesterday to His clear, gentle, powerful voice: “Don’t be so busy doing things for Me your whole life, only to wake up one morning to find that we’ve become strangers. Don’t let what was started in the Spirit to end in the flesh (Galatians 3).”

And I think? We need to speak about this a little more.

We the Bride of Christ have gotten so accustomed to doing that we forget the being. We are program/process-driven, and not enough presence/purpose-driven.

A.W.Tozer puts it this way — “If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.”

I don’t have the answers + solutions to this age-old struggle between the flesh and the spirit. There’s fasting, praying, reading the Bible. But I think we need Holy Spirit to breathe Life into all these things for them to bear fruit.

So today, I just want to say a prayer. Feel free to join me in it.

“Forgive me Lord. I don’t want to work my whole life for You, only to wake up one morning to find that we’ve become strangers. I don’t want what was started in the Spirit to end in the flesh. I’m so sorry Lord. Help my heart to shake off its shackles and draw closer to You. Help me abide in Your presence even as I run after Your vision. Show me how Jesus did it. Amen.”

Do you struggle with making time for God in the midst of ministry + life? How do you make room for Him? Share your words in the comments so we can pray along + encourage each other!

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Idream of Eden. We were made for the Garden and the full pleasure of paradise. We got separated at Eden and we spend our whole lives searching for a way back into that secret paradise. All of life's pursuit + pain + questioning can be traced back to man's search for home. Our deepest instincts tell us that we are not home outside of this reality, and our souls will never stop searching until we return. Only there will we find rest and our true being. There, we begin to dream again the dreams that have laid asleep in our hearts all along.

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