"I want you to start prophecying over your life", He said.
"It's time to stop ONLY looking for what you think I want you to want and to start DECIDING,
what it will be".
If I'm honest, this scared me; made me feel instantly nervous. EXCITED, for sure, buzzy with possibility even, but mostly? NERVOUS.
What if I chose wrong?
Could I really just ... DECIDE?
What if MY desires were not in Gods will or His timing?
Isn't there some element of just ... selfishness, or at least ... immaturity? Which would come through if I were just given free licence to willy nilly start saying what I think should be?
"But you do have free licence", I heard.
"I've given it to you already".
"And I am TELLING you -
take the training wheels off. Stop ONLY asking me what you should say, want, ask for, or expect.
It's okay that you have done it this way. And it is okay TO do it this way. Of course I desire you to seek me in all ways, including the ways I have for you! But there is an element to this which now needs to go. And it is the element in which you have been fearful of getting it wrong,
of choosing wrong,
of wanting wrong,
of doing the wrong thing by me,
or of not inherently wanting knowing or understanding what I have for you.
This is unscriptural. It is equivalent to saying you do not know my voice. And, as you teach others, you DO know my voice. My Word says it right there in my book of John. Chapter 10, verse 27: 'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me'.
How can you hear me voice if you do not know it?"
To hear is to know. To know is to listen. To listen is to follow. To follow is to obey my instructions and my instructions to you include that you should DECREE a thing,
and see it come to pass.
I have given you authority in me that you would use it. Not only to heal the sick, to perform miracles, to deliver one another, but also to TAKE BACK COMMAND OF THIS EARTH WHICH I MADE YOU.
In me YOU have authority over the earthly realm. And all that is on it or in it.
Have you not read, in Mark 11, where I say that you can ask for whatever you WISH and it will be given to you if you only believe, and speak?
'Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea', and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours'
My Word does not tell you that you will have whatever you wish if you hope in a HUMAN sense (because hope in me is ASSURED), or if you wish in a 'will He / won't He / can I / can't I' sort of a way, or if you THINK about it and cross your heart and hope to die ... PS don't do that ...
my word says IF YOU SPEAK IT AND BELIEVE IT.
Have you not seen me say in Isaiah 1:19-20 that you will have the good of the land if you are willing and obedient, and in Psalms 37:4 that you will receive from me the desires of your heart if you delight yourself in me? And again in Proverbs 10:24 that the desire of the righteous will be granted?
Have you heard me tell you in Hebrews 11:6 that without faith it is impossible to please me, because anyone who comes to me must believe that I exist and that I reward those who earnestly seek me?
Did you miss the 'YOU' in all of this?
Did you miss me speaking of YOUR desires?
Did you miss me mentioning how I reward and take care of those who seek me and believe in me?
Did you miss the numerous other scriptures I am bringing to your mind right now of how I love to provide for you, take care of you, delight you, and how ALL spiritual blessings are given when you believe?
Did you miss the teachings I have already had you share with your students on taking hold of their AUTHORITY in me?
And have you missed where I have clearly INSTRUCTED you,
to speak life.
To call what is not as though it IS.
To DECREE a thing,
and see it established,
and to understand that in me YOUR WORDS ARE A COMMAND AND THEY SHALL MEET THEIR TARGET.
Should I go on?"
Phewwwwww God, I HEAR YOU I HEAR YOU I HEAR YOU.
- "But how do I know for sure that I am going to choose right or speak right? What if I start prophecying stuff that I just ... shouldn't be? And can I really just start speaking to life the things I wish for? Is it that simple? Surely I would in some way be out of line to do so? Will it really work for ME?!"
I heard God answering me even as I spake.
"Oh ye of little faith", and
"BECAUSE of their UNBELIEF THEY DID NOT ENTER THE PROMISED LAND ... " - "okay God you can stop right there! I hear you!".
"My child", He said.
"Come, and sit with me. Just - sit. And be.
You have sought me earnestly and you continue to. Yes, you have much still to learn and our journey has in many ways just begun. Although you knew me your whole life,
you didn't know me.
But in many ways our journey will always be just at its begin.
And I am TELLING you that NOW is the time for you to take the charge I have given you.
YOUR WORDS CHARGE THE ANGELS.
YOUR WORDS COMMAND THE EARTH AND SEAS.
YOUR WORDS CALL FORTH THE VICTORY I HAVE ALREADY GIVEN YOU.
This must be APPLIED.
This is for you,
and it is also for the work of my Kingdom here on earth,
as you continue to say yes to what I have given you,
what I am enlarging in you even now,
and what is still to come.
Remember I told you some weeks ago to proclaim that your prayers are my voice?
DO YOU NOT THINK I WANT MY VOICE HEARD MORE ON EARTH?
NOW is the time to proclaim.
NOW is the time to declare.
NOW is the time to decree a thing, and not just the things you safely checked off as already being definitely directly written in scripture. Of course these. But also, yes -
the things you wish.
The things you long for.
The things you dream of.
Do you see?"
- "But Father -"
"Isn't it meant to be that YOU show me the desires of my heart and I then ... carefully check them to make sure it's true, before ... tentatively moving forward in expecting them?"
lololol I laughed at what I was saying at the end there even as I said it.
"My child YES. I reveal to you the desires of your heart IN me. And you have asked me to rearrange your desires to make them of me. But YOUR imagination and desire is allowed here. And at a certain point it is time to trust that because of who you are in me and how you lean on and submit to me,
you can trust in the desires you find when you look within.
And you can understand that without your decree?
Many of them will remain a thing you continue to pray for,
yet not see".
Suffice to say,
I accepted the task which I was given.
And became OBEDIENT to it forthwith.
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You will learn how to SAY WHAT WILL BE IN YOUR LIFE, and see it occur.
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It's time to DECREE a thing,
to understand what that means,
and WHOSE YOU ARE THEREFORE WHO YOU ARE,
as you walk out the faith
the authority
and the task
you are given.
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