NEW for the NOW

Below is my journal entry from January 8th, 2018, as I spoke of in my July post "Behold the New", along with some current thoughts. The next post in this series will be my journal entry from January 9th. They build on one another, and I thank Holy Spirit for connecting the dots, filling in the lines, and painting His picture with vivid colors so we can grab hold of it and walk through the door!     

BEHOLD the NEW

On January 8^th of this year, Holy Spirit spoke two words to me…”Order” and “New”. I love His intentionality! Even though the new year according to God’s timeline had already begun (Year 5778 on Rosh Hashanah, September 21, 2017), He spoke these words to me on the 8^th day of the first month of a new year according to the calendar of 2018. Just as the number seven symbolizes perfection, completion and fulfillment, the number eight symbolizes resurrection, regeneration, new beginnings, a new era, new order, a new creation.

The Army of the Lord is Rising

The Army of the Lord is rising. In groups of two or three, in homes, in houses of prayer, in small and large gatherings, on the streets, in the marketplace, in all spheres of influence…the Army of the Lord is assembling and rising to the Call in the full stature of Jesus Christ.

Wake Up. Rise Up. Shake Off the Dust.

You were neither meant to, nor created to conform to the status quo of the system of this world. 

Your Creator who fashioned you, wove within your DNA the very fabric of who He is.
  

You have been made in His image…to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. To see this creation liberated from the bondage of decay and brought back into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

OUT of the BOX

A box of any size is confining to the contents. 

It is when the contents are taken out of the box that there is potential of its purpose. 

Normally, the argument is that a box will keep the contents safe…safe yes, if the only thing one intends to do is put it in storage. (“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;" Matthew 6:19) 

BEYOND

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, 

but the glory of kings is to search out a matter."

(Proverbs 25:2)

What a beautiful picture of a deep and ever-growing relationship between our Father and those who desire to know Him. As I read this verse, I can sense the yearning, anticipation, and delight on both sides of this relationship. It is a place of knowing someone that goes beyond the boundaries of casual head-knowledge, and into a living understanding that can only come through heart-knowledge. It is going beyond the surface; what we can see with our natural eyes, hear with our natural ears, understand with our carnal mind.

"Here We Are"

As we approach the total solar eclipse on August 21st, as well as the sign in the heavens on September 23rd pointing to Revelation 12, this experience and word from October 8th, 2014 (during the second blood moon of the tetrad) comes to me again as our Father God continues to speak...His heart is imploring. Are we listening?