Out of rest, we will be flung from His Hand

As we go into the unwinding of 2022, the Lord is calling us to a deep place of rest and trust. His waves of healing are flowing over our souls, bodies, and spirits to refresh and restore all weary places.

I have been feeling such a wooing from the Holy Spirit to soak in His ever-abiding presence. Not in the form of an exchange of effort on my part, where I have to do anything to revel in His glory, but simply by opening the gateways of my heart and becoming intentionally aware of His desire to flood me. His Spirit comes rushing in like a river that’s been ready to burst its banks, ready to invade our weakness and weariness. This is the sweet place of intimacy where He is meeting us in our place of rest, lying down by the river, allowing it to overflow and saturate. Simply receiving Him in His glory.

The remnant has come through much suffering and much delay. There is a sense of completeness, that God has done what He needed to do to move us into full gear in 2023. Everything is about to change. We are about to witness the manifestation of His sons and daughters across the earth. We are going to see leaders fall and new ones rise. Our best years are ahead.

I’ve been hearing the Lord say, ‘I have taken My people into a great time of shaking, separating the ones who know me, from the ones who don’t. There has been a great divide, and now I am going to propel My people, who have been called by My name, into a gear that is so fast and so high, that they, themselves, will be surprised by the workings of My Spirit in their lives. Nothing they have expected will look as they thought, for I am doing a new thing, and it will be greater and bigger than their expectation. Even My promises, that which they’ve tarried for, will blow them away, for it will surpass their human expectations.

As I’m revealing My glory through you, so I will also reveal My judgment through you. You have learned how to stand in the face of accusation and rejection, and now you will be like David was before Goliath. You will call him out and take him down. Not only do you hold the striking stone, but your very life is the stone that will be flung at the enemy. You, My Bride, are My weapon of mass destruction. Your life of holiness, purity, truth, justice, surrender, obedience, integrity, courage, and testimony, will be flung at the enemy’s head by My mighty hand, and He will fall down.

2023 will mark a great change in the nations. The fight is fiercer than ever, the battle for the nations is reaching its peak. Now is the time for the nations to wake up as they see how I deal with the wicked leaders and power-rulers of the earth. Some of these leading ones are waking up to the horror of what they’ve committed to, and the reality of what they’ve aligned to. Their families are being torn apart and their generations will not last, for the ruthlessness by which these rulers operate, is starting to touch their own lives, and is beyond what they have imagined. These influential ones who will awaken in the brief window period of the valley of decision, will be plucked out of the enemy’s camp in an instant, and put into the camp of the peoples of the nations.

As the disciples were shocked, questioning the authenticity of Saul’s conversion, so you will question these ones. Watch and see. The ones who are true, are the ones who will fight to the end, in spite of the cost to their own lives. They will be willing to die for the cause, and I will use them in the same way as I used Paul. They will have name changes, and they will shake the wicked and free the nations from the curse that has kept them in bondage. For they will be my loudest trumpets in the days ahead. They will expose and bring to light that which has been hidden. As I showed My grace by using a Jew, who had bloodstained hands, to bring the salvation message to the world, so I will use these unlikely ones who were on the wrong side of the camp, to run in the frontlines of the battle lines. They have understanding, knowledge, and insight into the traps of the enemy and will target their blows strategically.

The earth is coming into a time of great awakening. I am going to unite people from different backgrounds, religions, cultures, statuses, and places. Be ready to open your arms to these ones who are different from you. For through your own suffering, I have given you great compassion for others, and now will be the time that you will understand the duration and delay that accompanied this training. It is My Remnant who holds the healing salve of My Spirit for the nations. You will be stretched out of your comfort zones and places of isolation, for I am positioning you to lead the ones who are following. This leading can only be done from a place of deep rest and intimacy with Me, where I lead and you simply follow, I speak, and you listen.

It is not a place you need to fight to find. It is an ever-abiding place of My presence. Now is the time to let My waters flow like a cascading river, over and over again. Everything is about to change, the speed will accelerate and new assignments will be given quickly. However, those who learn to stay in My rest, operating and moving in this place of intimate companionship, will be able to run and keep on running.

Be careful not to lose energy by fighting this battle in the flesh. The time of trying to convince the blind of the truth or awaken the ignorantly sleeping, has come to an end. I am moving fast and the wave of truth will crash hard on the earth. Keep your energy for what will follow the crash of the wave. Now is the time to rest and let Me use you without effort or labour on your part. You are My beautifully, smoothened white stones that I will launch at the enemy by the force of My arm and the release of My hand.

Rest, My beloved. Drink in My waters. Know that you are precious in My sight, and I am your faithful Father who will save the nations by My hand and bring you into the full promise you have been tarrying for. Know that when you live in the place of My rest, you also live in the place of My revelation. It is the time of unsealing and unveiling, layer by layer. It is the time of eyes seeing and ears hearing that which the Spirit of the Living God will reveal to His beloved. The Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom, of understanding, of counsel, of might, of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord, it is He, who will refresh, restore, renew and awaken you as you remain in the place of His rest.’

1 Corinthians 15:8-11

8Last of all he appeared in front of me, like one born prematurely, ripped from the womb.  9Yes, I am the most insignificant of all the apostles, unworthy even to be called an apostle, because I hunted down believers and persecuted God’s church. 10But God’s amazing grace has made me who I am!  And his grace to me was not fruitless. In fact, I worked harder than all the rest,  yet not in my own strength but God’s, for his empowering grace is poured out upon me. 11So this is what we all have taught you, and whether it was through me or someone else, you have now believed the gospel.

Psalm 23

The Good Shepherd

David’s poetic praise to God

1Yahweh is my best friend and my shepherd. 
I always have more than enough. 

2He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. 
His tracks take me to an oasis of peace near the quiet brook of bliss. 

3That’s where he restores and revives my life. 
He opens before me the right path
and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness 
so that I can bring honor to his name.

4Even when your path takes me through
the valley of deepest darkness,
fear will never conquer me, for you already have!
Your authority is my strength and my peace. 
The comfort of your love takes away my fear.
I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.

5You become my delicious feast
even when my enemies dare to fight.
You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit; 
you give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows. 

6So why would I fear the future?
Only goodness and tender love pursue me all the days of my life.
Then afterward, when my life is through,
I’ll return to your glorious presence  to be forever with you!

Revelation 2:17

17But the one whose heart is open, let him listen carefully to what the Spirit is presently saying to all the churches. To everyone who is victorious I will let him feast on the hidden manna  and give him a shining white stone.  And written upon the white stone is inscribed his new name, known only to the one who receives it. 

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

9This is why the Scriptures say:
Things never discovered or heard of before,
things beyond our ability to imagine —
these are the many things God has in store
for all his lovers. 

10But God now unveils these profound realities to us by the Spirit.  Yes, he has revealed to us his inmost heart and deepest mysteries through the Holy Spirit, who constantly explores all things. 11After all, who can really see into a person’s heart and know his hidden impulses except for that person’s spirit? So it is with God. His thoughts and secrets are only fully understood by his Spirit, the Spirit of God.

12For we did not receive the spirit of this world system but the Spirit of God, so that we might come to understand and experience all that grace has lavished upon us. 13And we  articulate these realities with the words imparted to us by the Spirit and not with the words taught by human wisdom. We join together Spirit-revealed truths with Spirit-revealed words.  14Someone living on an entirely human level  rejects  the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit. 15Those who live in the Spirit are able to carefully evaluate all things, and they are subject to the scrutiny of no one but God. 

16For Who has ever intimately known the mind of the Lord Yahweh well enough to become his counselor?

Christ has, and we possess Christ’s perceptions.