A word for this time: Separation, Goshen

I clearly heard Jesus Christ, Yeshua, speak before I went to bed and had to post this tonight.  Sometimes there is an urgency and tonight I must post.  He said, “I am shaking that which is not founded on Me.  I am blessing that which is founded on me.  There is a separation.  Do not be afraid!”

This is a spectacular time to be living, dearest friends.  We are blessed to witness what our forefathers dreamed of in terms of Yeshua moving in mighty ways.  Can you imagine?  A time when the contrast between darkness and light is amplifying and startling?  A time where believers are protected and even supernaturally prosper in Goshen (Genesis 47:27)?  Goshen has been on my mind as many of my believing friends are looking to move to a safe place out of the country.  I am planted here!  The Lord has shown me my Promised Land here and I am not moving but declaring my intention to enter it and take it back from the occupiers!  Maybe I sound cocky, but no more confident and headstrong than Caleb or Joshua, I hope.  I am not moving but planted!   With Christ in me I will see the enemy move on!  It is the Lord’s victory.  I could tell you stories of some of the personal enemies being thwarted and turned away in my life by the Lord’s hand.  True miracles.  But I’m talking about America, here.  We are Jesus’ people and don’t care about polls and opinions.  Or imminent wars.  We care about Yeshua and His supernatural abilities to shake, shake, shake things up.  And we’ll be standing after the shaking!!  Do not fear!  Don’t look at the waves like Peter but look at Jesus' face and walk on the water.  There are two worlds.  Which do we choose to live in, just as the Israelites trusted in their Lord?  I can feel the faith of the church and the faith of Israel strengthening and converging in these stormy times until we find ourselves looking at the same magnificent face of YESHUA.

When I’m not worked up as in the last paragraph, I am in a place of immense peace in His presence and witnessing His moving.  I’m planting a beautiful garden in the natural which I believe is a type and shadow of the spiritual.  I don’t have the funds to advance completely into the Promised Land and occupy all for His sake that He has laid on my heart.  My occupation right now is only partial.  Some major bills are due in two months.  I smile, without a care, because I have been in this place many times before.  He’s the Provider, not I.  Yesterday, out of the blue someone told me they had a referral fee they owed me and were going to send me money.  I didn’t have to do any work for it. 

On another investment, I’ve been in a position to invest that could very well usher me into the Promised Land I believe He has put on my heart, and all that I have desired to purchase for His glory, to create a place of spiritual refreshment and encounter for others.  I have dreamed of this day for years and I can feel the breakwaters of the tide coming in.

If you notice, the DOW is going to 14,000, with the major pullback in spring, just as prophesied.  To Him is the glory because the vision came from Him and not pizza imagination.

I can’t say anything else as I have said what I believe He wanted me to say. There is a separation going on in the world.  A separation.  There are spiritual Goshens present as well.  Here is a word of wisdom, “The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where [those whose only rock is Yeshua] were.” Exodus 9:26 (NIV)

The insidious whispers of your budget

If you have followed my blog I’ve testified the Lord has provided just enough just in time over the last couple of years.  I have high expenses because of my Californian home.  There is nowhere in the Bible that says, “thou shalt have a lovely home in California”.  So I’ve been willing to sell and have "put it on the altar” numerous times, in church speak.  But the Lord proved His will to me and kept providing in the most unusual ways.  He made it clear to me my own workaholic efforts were toil and vanities because oftentimes the prospects I worked hardest cultivating ended up not becoming clients after all.  And then at very last minute a brand new client I had never met before appeared out of the blue.  Such has been 2010 through this year.

But now the lesson is changing with me.  For the last two years I have kept a very careful eye on my expenses, tallying everything in a spreadsheet and sometimes looking at my projected expenses and income every day.  But I also stepped out in faith and made some investments.  So money is starting to expand slowly in my bank account by His grace.  However, yesterday He made it clear He wants me to listen to Him before I purchase something, and not check my budget spreadsheet if I will have sufficient funds.  This has pushed me into an area of discomfort, wondering if I will hear Him correctly on what to purchase and what not to.  When I started agreeing with Him that I wouldn’t look at my spreadsheet and plug in the new potential expenses, then I realized I could hear His voice exceedingly clearly.  How insidious the whispers of money are, of your budget!!  What I rationalized as being a good steward was actually excess yielding to the dictates of money.  The word “dictates” I chose because dictates means to “lay down authoritatively, prescribe, to say”.  The root word is the same as in diction, it is about speaking.  When you are watching your pennies closely those pennies will “speak” to you and muddle your hearing God.  We can’t listen to both God and money.

Here is an example.  This evening I needed a binder.  I went into my garage sensing a binder would be there somewhere.  I found a single binder, buried, and only one.  It was very dusty from years ago.  When I came back inside and started putting the hole-punched papers in the binder I heard the Lord say, “How did you know there was a binder in the garage?”  His question stopped me.  I realized I just knew, I just knew because of His Spirit lightly leading me to explore the garage.  He didn’t need to say anything more for me to realize He was telling me His Spirit should similarly lead me in all my activities, including purchases, and not my spreadsheet.  Of course, I constantly pray and seek His guidance before any purchase, but He is wanting to refine my listening further in saying there is an insidious voice of money speaking from my budget.  What if He says to do it and my budget says I shouldn’t, I should keep more money in the bank?  He’s proved to me these past years that when I’m in step with Him, the money that is needed for my flowing in His desires for my life will always be there.  I need some repairs on the house and He has said to just get the repairs done and not hesitate, He has always provided.  I wanted to help a non-profit and He put me in a position to greatly help financially and with my time, which gave me immense joy.  None of these things were in my carefully controlled budget spreadsheet.

So I will end by saying I’m astounded how insidious the whispers of money are, especially through what we might rationalize as good stewardship.  The many ways it has us listening to its sneaky voice.  It whispers, “you can’t fix that or buy that because you don’t have the money.”  Or, “if you worked a little harder, then you would have the money you need.”  Or, “if you gave a little more, that’s the equation for God to bless you more.”  Or, “why are you buying that for yourself when you could help the poor more instead?”  That chatter of mammon with the little gray clouds of oppression and gloom are not the Kingdom’s way, I believe.  The way of the Kingdom is a lightness in God, almost a floating feeling, where you just do what He says – even if your budget spreadsheet makes you nervous – and allow Him to be your Father, allow Him to be your provider… not you.  It takes all the weight off your shoulders when you simply accept His sweet presents and surprises.  The more He surprises and blesses me the more I want to surprise and bless others.  Isn’t that a way of the Kingdom?

I See

I see the statue of Dagon crumbling like very old plaster and breaking into small pieces into rubble on the floor.  This statue represents that American political leadership that has set itself up against the Spirit of God.

I see presidential candidate Mitt Romney, not a Christian, on whom the Spirit of God rests.  He will yield to and follow the Spirit of God more sensitively than many who call themselves Christians.  I see this bothering Christians.

I see the institutions of man, the churches built on the thoughts and traditions of men, one with a preacher giving a speech, another with a priest blessing with his hand.  I see a small number of those in the pews, one by one, quietly leaving by climbing through open windows to each side.

I see a huge spiritual movement, a swelling, not coming from the religious institutions of men, not coming from the Christian and Catholic institutional churches of men.  I see a huge spiritual movement swelling from those who meditate, those who do yoga, those who chant, those who see visions and dream dreams, those who thirst for the clean waters of God, those who want to draw closer and closer to Him.  I see that as they peer deeply into the things of God they will see Jesus, they will meet Jesus face to face.  This is a spiritual matter and a heart matter, not a head matter.  It is why they will meet Jesus because He will reveal Himself to them and not withhold.

I see a great gathering of different spiritual backgrounds where they talk from the heart and from the spirit and not from the head because Jesus is becoming their head.  They are learning to hear the mind of Christ.  They are learning to follow the whisper of Christ.  They are coming out of religious captivity and spiritual bondage to the doctrines and institutions of men and finding freedom in Christ whom they will discover more and more.  I see this bothering Christians.

I see relaxing drunkenness in this spiritual place of His rich presence where all is provided for with light labor and much rest.  I see audacious, trusting prayers being answered, prayers not only for physical healing but also for financial healing.  I see many people being folded into the big (in an expansive way) and loving arms of Abba Father.  I see all this for those who dare to depart from the thoughts and traditions and institutions of men, like David who turned away from his brothers and their thoughts.  They will instead go directly to the source of their delight and healing.  I see this all happening without rudeness and rejection of people but rather rejection of ideas.  This huge spiritual movement will be a departure from the thoughts and traditions and institutions of men while still loving brothers who yield to traditions of men.

Clarification: I do see the Spirit of God resting on Mitt Romney, much as the Spirit rested on some political leaders in the Old Testament.  This may be part of the time or all the time, I don’t know, but the resting on and his yielding to the Lord will be significant.  Please read carefully this is a resting on and not an abiding in, I do not have visibility into the latter.

For previous prophesies on Dagon falling see:

http://propheticinvestor.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-2012-liberty-bell-will-sound-dagon.html

http://propheticinvestor.blogspot.com/2012/04/refining-fire-this-year.html
It’s interesting I haven’t read the prophecy “In 2012 the Liberty Bell will sound ‘Dagon has fallen’” in a couple months. I didn’t remember He said in August 2011, “I will put my Spirit on the leader I choose who humbles himself before Me.” So it is interesting what I saw today.

Update as of July 7, 2012:
A couple days ago I saw in a short vision a small white dove of the Lord resting on Romney’s left shoulder.  I saw a greyish tan dove like a mourning dove resting on Obama’s right shoulder.  The two leaders looked at each other.  To some it might look as the doves have to do with skin color, which is not at all true.  The doves have to do with responding to the peace and instructions of the Lord.  One response will be less muddied and more pure than the other.

We are going to see the Lord do surprising things through Mormons.  It’s humbled me to not judge but let God be God.  Christians can become worldly in their thinking and desires and not respond well to God.  Those who don’t yet accept Jesus as Messiah and as God who descended into flesh can soften and respond to the promptings of God’s Spirit.  Humans change.  God never changes.  The Father is on the throne, meaning He has all power and kindness, and is looking for those who respond to Him and His Son.  Jesus said, "What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life…  This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him,” and “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away” John 6:62 - 6:65 and 6:37 (NIV).

Update as of November 9, 2012:

A good friend, Eagle, sent me the following on Oct 26:

“I see presidential candidate Mitt Romney, not a Christian, on whom the Spirit of God rests. He will yield to and follow the Spirit of God more sensitively than many who call themselves Christians. I see this bothering Christians.”

Read this little story. I follow politics intensively and just have zero doubt that God’s hand is upon Mitt Romney.

http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/10/25/white-house-insider-mitt-romneys-quiet-prayer-amidst-the-sound-of-thunder/

At the presidential election, however, over 6 million self-professed evangelical Christians voted for President Obama and not Governor Romney.  Had they voted for President Romney, he would have won.  See the prophetic vision, “I see presidential candidate Mitt Romney, not a Christian, on whom the Spirit of God rests. He will yield to and follow the Spirit of God more sensitively than many who call themselves Christians. I see this bothering Christians.”

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/more-than-6-million-self-described-evangelicals-voted-for-obama-why-what-else-do-the-exit-polls-tell-us-about-how-christians-voted/

 

Speaking face-to-face in sentences with our Father

For the past 2 weeks I have had unusual extreme discomfort in my upper abdomen that I have never experienced before.  “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him”  John 7:38 (NIV)  I thought it related to my diet.  Perhaps I was drinking too much caffeine via my many teas and one cup of coffee and it was giving me an ulcer or acid reflux.  I went to bed each night with very uncomfortable, almost painful gurgling in my upper intestinal tract, moving, pressuring, bubbling.  Rolaids did help it to settle down a bit and allow me to fall asleep.  This serious discomfort, as I mentioned, has gone on about two weeks.

This afternoon on a prayer walk the very uncomfortable almost painful pressure in my upper belly started again.  I couldn’t stop it.  The Lord said quite clearly, “You are afraid to talk with Me, I want to talk with you.”  That is exactly true.  I had been suppressing hearing the voice of the Lord within because, I will be honest, I’ve been doubting some of the things I believe He told me about my life.  I can’t equate myself with the greats in the Bible.  But I do relate to David who received a promise and found himself hiding in a cave, the opposite condition from his promise.  Or Joseph who also received a promise and found himself in the opposite condition in a prison.  So I thought, no more voices!  I will just not listen!  Maybe I’m not hearing my heavenly Father after all!  Yet the Bible says His Spirit lives in me, within my very being and person through faith in the Messiah, and Jesus said I should know and recognize His voice.  But forget all that, I’d rather pretend He doesn’t talk to me and just shut out that voice in my belly!

So on the walk I capitulated.  And He talked, not a lot, but indeed clearly.  And boy did my belly gurgle and gurgle like a pipe that was getting unclogged by a benevolent plumber.  What He shared was for me personally and, as is His way, so kind but also an “upward call” in line with what a Father would share who seeks spiritually mature children and not instantly gratified, worldly children.

So this evening, as I am writing this, all the discomfort from the last two weeks in my upper abdomen has absolutely disappeared.  Not from a change in diet, but from a change in heart.  This evening in my kitchen He wanted to speak some more, I resisted, and the uncomfortable bubbling and contortions in my belly started again.  So I bowed my head, yielded my spirit and ears to Him, and He spoke.  I realized how silly is the cryptic language most Christians, including myself, seek.  Signs via  dreams or numbers flashing on a clock or unusual wildlife behavior or little snippets of phrases.  Yes, the Lord uses all of that to speak to us and confirm.  But “the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.”  Exodus 33:11 (NIV)

I know I am to post this tonight otherwise I suspect I will not be able to sleep until I do.  And I don’t want to toss and turn with gurgling that feels like an ulcer so I will obey.  The Lord doesn’t want His children to talk only in dreams and signs with Him.  He is beckoning those who want to talk face to face, in sentences, in very clear words spoken by Him within and non-obtuse visions given by Him.  I suspect now that I yield my ears to Him and stop doubting what I have heard in the past, that the very uncomfortable and almost painful gurgling in my belly will not return.  And that His desire, that others hear full sentences like Moses did, will be accomplished. 

Soros

I received this word the very end of March and was not going to post it because it was so unusual.  Because of the Dagon being toppled word which, after speaking with a friend today, may mean the Lord is bringing down some political systems or political agendas this year in America, I thought I would post.
 

“Soros, Soros, will you continue to lift your head above the Most High?  Will you break the back of fellow citizens and neighbors?  Will you break the spines of countries?  Are you so surprised money and intrigue could do such a thing?

“I have left wealth and power and position in your hands and what have you done?  Are you like a king who prospers My people?  No!  You are like the heartless who rule with an iron glove and butter smiles.  Repent!  Or your length of days will be cut short for the sake of My people.  I see their suffering from your whims and fantasies.  You are like the Wizard of Oz pulling pulleys behind the curtain.  Repent!  Or your days will be cut short by natural cause.  I say this so you know that I, the Lord, have spoken and not man.  Repent and see My Son and I will receive you after your length of days.  There is time for you to change your heart, but not much time if you do not change.”

Refining Fire & This Year

“Shake up!  Shake up!  I have said Dagon will fall this year. 

“There has been much that has raised its head against Me.  Little gods set on pedestals.  But they will topple and fall from their thrones of ‘infallibility’.  Because they are not.

“Who can speak for Me?  Could Job?  Could his friends?  Take care how you judge inside and outside what is Mine.  Is not all Mine?  I will perplex even the church.  Those who think they know will be scratching their heads.  Then they will see like my servant Job.  Even you, Sierra.  How muddy, muddy are the sights of the prophets.  Don’t you realize Elijah saw more clearly in his cave?  Or David in his caves?  If you are not willing to take up your cross how can you see?  But My yoke is light when I rest My yoke on your shoulders.  Know what it means that it pleased Me for My Son to be crushed and bruised so you might find true life in Me.  Separate yourself from worldliness and lusts and discover My ways because they are not your ways.  Do I not purify like a refiner’s fire to separate the gold from the dross, the wheat from the chaff  so that your joy in Me may be released and Me in you?

“You will see My Kingdom where all comes from Me, I rain on the righteous and unrighteous alike.  Is my arm too short to save?  Did Saul kick and kick and kick against Me until I revealed Myself to Him?  Can I not save the greatest sinner?  Or the lesser sinner?  Those who do not know they need to be saved from their ways do not see My ways.  They are muddy.  So fire is a friend, a lamp that lights a path for your heart and burns up that which held you because you held it.

“You will marvel at what I topple, who I draw to Myself, for judgment begins in My house.  I came and baptized with fire and how My fire is bright and hot!  The church seeks My power of fire but its refinement shall be accomplished until I am in all and through all.  Have you not read “all in all”?  What is “all”?  Is not “all” mine?  Scratch your head.  Or see like Job. 

“Rejoice you are in the fire and seeing gold shine through in you.  I have called, and they shall be My people and I shall be their God.  Fruit upon fruit upon fruit.  My Son the first fruit. Other fruits bursting forth in Him.  Then more fruit.  Life upon life upon life.  The world and all that was and is and is to come is Mine.  Is there anything not Mine?  Why do you scratch your head?  Can I not burn away the dross and chaff and make gold and wheat in abundance?  Have I not said it will be?  Consider this.

“Let me tell you this Easter.  You who are living sacrifices, who yield your bodies and hearts to Me will experience the wings of Easter.  The dove of peace.  I will rest like feathers on your shoulders.  Your kiss and embrace will be soaked with kindness for the lost and hurting.  You will be a balm to others, a soothing aroma.  I will be your Father in a way that will bring sweet tears to your eyes.  This will be one of your best years ever for My sake.  Do not doubt these words.  He who submits to fire and its purposes will reveal shining gold.  My fire is ablaze.  This will be one of the best years of your life because you have overcome the world and seek to overcome.  You have let Me burn your dross, and more, and more.  The world has not been able to hold onto you, although it will try again.  So smile and be glad!  Yes, I am your Good Father!  And this is one of the best years of your life!  Eat the feast!  Drink the wine!  And share with your neighbors!"

Most of today I have been meditating, studying and reading the Bible.  After I received the above – over which I spent much time in prayer – I would like to share a related verse, Hebrews 9:14, which will paraphrase:  The blood of Jesus Christ – the final, perfect and only High Priest – purifies our conscience from worldliness and vain activities so we may follow and serve the living God.   It is the shed blood of Jesus, and His living Spirit poured out on us, that supernaturally cleanses and refines our consciences so we may live for Him and love.

Dare, Dare, Dare to be Rock Solid Confident in His Love for You

I watched a famous TV preacher and healing evangelist on Christian TV.  He led a song, “Hallelujah”, so I joined in worship.  Then something snapped in the spiritual and emotional realms for me.  I had been dealing with excessive lowliness and, you could say, mild depression last days and weeks because of some fierce pressures on me personally.  I couldn’t understand how God could say and show so many prophesies and visions through me about America, the economy and its stock market that were unfolding just as He said and yet my own life, well, seemed to be going the polar opposite to what I thought He had shown me years ago.  Sort of like Joseph getting sold into slavery and thrown into prison.  Or David hiding from Solomon in caves.  But for me the personal pressures had gone on years so I began thinking I could only hear accurately about broader arenas – such as America and the economy – and not about me personally.  I share because I sense in the Spirit that you have also felt, perhaps are feeling now, the self-doubt, sometimes crippling self-doubt.
 

Something snapped in me while I was singing “Hallelujah”.  The spiritual air around me became expansive, free and saturated with goodness. I understood something exceedingly simple, “If you love God that is proof beyond all doubt He loves you with powerful passionate love because your ability to love Him flows from Him.”  Religion inserts commentary learning, tests, grades, judgment, “The Law” against which you are measured.  But all that is hogwash compared to Jesus’ loving you and you loving Him, that circle of precious eternal passionate enormous love.

Dare to have the strong confidence He loves you more passionately than you love Him.  Dare.  King David knew it.  The apostle John knew it.  Were they loved more than others who loved God?  No.  They simply dove further into the love spa, the love fest, that circle of precious eternal passionate enormous love with their Lord Jesus Christ.  It’s a ring, a circle, just like a wedding ring.  It’s not one-way.  And if you have one-way glasses that magnify your love for Him but are feeling trickles back, then take off your glasses and step right into His love for you.  Be confident in His love for you.  Step on in.  David and John didn’t just love God.  They knew they were loved powerfully by Him.  They stepped on in and received that embrace from Christ.  So I ask you to dare.  Dare.  Dare to step on in and be rock solid confident in His love for you.  Because that precious eternal passionate enormous love is all yours, He wants to give it to you.  It’s a circle, a love knot, a wedding ring around your heart.

Dare to know you are the one Jesus loves as powerfully as an intimate spouse and closest companion.  Dare in the face of those perceived as spiritually superior to know God loves you as much as they.  Yes, as much as those who have impressive spiritual gifts or are unusually prospered.  Dare, in the face of those acting spiritually confident and self-assured, Christian TV is full of the confident and rightly so, to say you, too, are the disciple Jesus loved.  Jesus loves you just as much as they.  Just as much.  Just as much.  In fact, you have every right through your relationship and love with Him to be self-assured in Him.  It’s about His love and your love and trust, and your love and trust never will be perfect.  But His is.  Simple.  Very very simple.  It’s the gospel.  Step into His enormous love for you personally.  Dare.

Dare to be confident you are uniquely loved just like the apostle John was confident.  Just like King David was confident.  Dare.

I hope I’m helping to break off some self-doubt, mild depression, and not-good-enough gunk here because being bound by that nonsense is not who you are or how He loves you.  You have the right, the invitation, to be confident in one thing, being the disciple whom Jesus loved.  You.  You have the right, since the apostle John and King David understood this truth, to exalt yourself out of self-doubt and depression and into the confidence of being adored by Him.  This is your rock:  His love and your knowing it.  If you don’t feel His love just continue the circle around, because you can’t continue loving Him if He doesn’t also love you.  All this talk in the church body of crowns getting stolen, going here and there spiritually, doing this and that to prove your spiritual gifts, all these spiritual calisthenics to prove how close you are to Him and how much you love Him are crippling people, I believe.  I would forward that maybe, just maybe, there would be phenomenal eruption of goodness in His church body if each and every person was rock solid confident how much He loves them personally.  If we were all like King David and the apostle John.   Imagine how solid – out of rock solid confidence in His love for each of us – we would be in our love for others?

One last comment.  I had one clear, simple prayer today, given I admitted I’ve had a mild depression for a couple weeks.  Here was my prayer, “Lord, please give me a gift to show me you really love me.”  Do you think He answered my prayer?  He will answer yours.