Be of Good Courage

 In the dark early morning hour just before dawn, the Lord conveys one word: COURAGE.

This is like a banner in my dream state.  As I come into the place of meeting with my Lord, the first thing I register is the account of Caleb in Numbers 13-14 and again in Joshua 14.

The backdrop to this is a study in what has been called the "7 mountains" or spheres of influence in our Nation through which we are to impact our world.  The 7 mountains stand as places in our culture whereby we as followers of Yeshua, are to exercise authority in this, our One Nation Under Yahweh, God of all Creation. 

These spheres of influence have been invaded and dominated by the "giants" of pagan ideology, have corrupted our Godly heritage and all but decimated our once cherished values which are the foundational rights and responsibilities of our original covenant called the Constitution of our United States.

There are only 2 nations in all of history chosen by Yahweh to represent His order in society:  Israel and America. Our constitution is based on Biblical values of freedom with law and order as the fundamental tenant of social order that brings such freedom to all our citizens.  

Globalists have found their way into the fabric of all these spheres of influence and pushed an agenda to "fundamentally change" America.  Most of us have been asleep at the switch and failed until recently to realize the depths of corruption and manipulation being executed against us, by enemies both foreign and domestic. 

That said, The Lord has given a strategy whereby His people can once again operate and have victory in our One Nation under His ruling authority.  We can once again be THE UNITED STATES of America.  

The weapons that we fight with are not carnal but Divine (mighty through God) to the bringing down of "strongholds".  2 Corinthians 10:4-6.  "We demolish arguments and every pretention that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ."  

Since Yeshua came, lived among us, died our death, was resurrected to life and ascended to His Heavenly Throne of power and authority we have been given back our original assignment and with the Power (via His Holy Spirit unleashed at Pentecost) to subdue the earth.  Title deed of the earth has been re-issued (as it were) to Yahweh's imagers.  We are His regents with the delegated authority to manage and care for His created world.

Our Divine dominion is exercised in the same way Creation began:

In the beginning, Genesis 1 tells us that the Spirit of Yahweh hovered over the darkness and said, "Let there be Light".  The original word "Light" is not the illumination light of the sun, created on the 4th day, but more specifically, OHR.  OHR is the word used and means: to bring order out of chaos.  Darkness is chaos.  Light is Order, and God's order was brought out from the chaos of the darkness.  Darkness is the absence of light.  Light pierces the darkness and brings order to the chaos. 

Interesting that in Ephesians 6:12, where we are given a clue about our earthly struggles, we are told, "for we are not struggling against human beings, but against rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers GOVERNING THIS DARKNESS, against spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly realms". (CJB) Then Paul tells us to take up every piece of our war equipment that Yahweh provides. 

Notice that these evil powers govern the darkness NOT THE LIGHT.  Who governs the Light?  The Light of the World!  Jesus IS the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. When He left earth, He gave to us His power and authority to accomplish His will.  To operate in our delegated Dominion as His "regents" here on earth takes confidence and courage.  BTW, Regent: a person appointed to govern a state temporarily because the Monarch is absent. Such is our assignment to govern and bring the gospel (Light) to all nations.

The Creation account reveals the source of our power to overcome the darkness: The spoken Word.  LET THERE BE LIGHT!   Bringing order to the chaos of evil is accomplished through the spoken word.  We have been restored to Our Creator's original plan to co-labor with His Created in the government of His/our world.  

This is the Word of our Testimony, and it is the Blood of the Lamb shed in our behalf that provides for our restored relationship with our Heavenly Father and Creator God with the restored assignment:  Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth, rule over (take dominion) over the fish in the sea, birds in the air, and every creature that crawls on the earth.  I.E ruling authority over all His created world. 

Jesus, before leaving Planet earth, restated our assignment:  Matthew 28:18-20,

And Jesus came and said to them, "all authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...."  The goal of our delegated dominion is to bring all nations to and under the ruling authority of Jesus. With this commission comes the power:  Luke 10:19, "I have given you the power to tread serpents, and scorpions under foot and to TRAMPLE ON ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY, AND IN NO CASE SHALL ANYTHING DO YOU HARM. 

We are living with "Kingdom" authority, but not without opposition by evil enemies of our Kingdom and our King. 

Back to the message of Caleb.  Caleb was one of 12 scouts sent into the promised land and only 1 of 2 who came back with the en-couraging word that while the giants in the land were big, the God of Israel's army was bigger. 10 of the team sent to scout out the land came back with a dis-couraging word that created fear, and a refusal to move forward in battle to take the promised land. Ultimately it caused the entire nation to wander for 40 years in the wilderness which should have been a 2-week journey into the promised land.  

Sadly, the worse penalty for this lack of courage and faithlessness in Yahweh's power was the inability for the older generation to even enter the promised land.  The giants in the land of promise were physically giants.  In our world today the "giants" can refer to the size of the opposition and the corrupt teaching of their ideology that so many have taken up and either capitulated to or fearfully chosen to appease and not resist.  

The message of today rings loudly in my ears as a prayer warrior with and for my Kingdom and my King. Words have power and the enemy knows this principle better that we do but uses the knowledge to speak destruction, corruption and chaos over our nation thru cooperative humans.  

Our responsibility and privilege is to speak Divine Creative words over all the darkness we find, but it takes courage to use our voices and declare:  Let there be Light (OHR) as our Creator did and then He proceeded to speak His ordered universe into existence.  

The Last words of Jesus before returning to His Heavenly Throne of all power, enforce the command, "In the world you will have tribulation, but take COURAGE, for I HAVE OVERCOME (defeated, gained victory over) THE WORLD (of darkness).  

As the Lord spoke the word "courage" to me this morning, He told me: "If you will exhibit the courage of Caleb, I will give you all you need to take the high country and defeat the giants in the land!"   What a promise, but it begins with "IF".......

Courage is contagious!  When we who trust in the promises of our Lord, continue to exercise the authority delegated to us when Jesus left planet earth, speak worthy words and reject the lies of an enemy, changes happen, and productivity occurs to the benefit of humanity. 

The battle for America is raging.  This is our "promised" land and we can see the giants with their pagan ideology in opposition to our Constitutional covenant with Yahweh and each other. Will we find the courage in trusting that:  with Yahweh, God of America, we can take (back) our land, restore the good life under His ruling authority and fulfill the destiny our founders envisioned and He ordained at our foundation?  

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him? 

 

 

  

 

 

Into the Land of the Giants

The Holy One calls me this morning.  Nothing changes our early morning conference calls, and for that I am so thankful.  The Holy One has called to me every morning for years.  We are all on a learning curve and His lessons continue all the days of our lives.  Different seasons bring different applications of His Living Word. 

I am sure He was calling to me even before I recognized His voice or my need to respond.  That's the way it is with Holiness: He calls and then He waits.  Now I recognize His voice like a sheep does the Shepherd's and nothing is more important than listening to all He has to say to me.

The importance of our relationship has never been clearer than while my earthly husband was slipping away into eternity.  The Holy One never left me. In a supremely super- natural way, the Holy Spirit spoke to me throughout the dying process, and the one thing I could count on was His call to me each and every morning.....and then amazing grace for the moments flowed.

The last and most familiar season of my temporal life in 2012 was over.  It ended when my earthly husband crossed his finish line and went to be with our Lord.  Grief may last through the night, but joy comes with the rising of the sun, and the conference with Holiness at daybreak.

The whole earth is groaning with the need to see the return of our King.  He left here over 2000 years ago after having conquered the enemy of our soul.  Upon His resurrection and return to His Throne of Sovereign Authority, He released the power of His Holiness into the life of every person willing to follow Him into and through that death He suffered once and for all.

I am one of the grateful recipients of His gift because Holiness speaks to me.  Out of my thankful thoughts, He takes me to His Word and touches on the next phase of our journey.

The adventure now required me to go on alone.  Not alone in the sense of no fellowship, but alone without my physical companion of 31 years.  Not alone in the sense of no direction or grasp of a plan, but without the other guy providing his vision and his leadership over temporal circumstances.

I confess there is some fear associated with my loss.  And that fear is the point of today's meeting. The Holy One wants me to address the fear of the future.

I believe that in every season, there is a symbolic "out-of-the-wilderness and into-the-promised-land" scenario.  I believe the Word includes all the details of how God worked in the nation of Israel and all those individual lives for our education in Holiness.  I believe that if we look close and be honest about our personal life experiences and compare them to those detailed in God's Holy Word, we would see ourselves on every page.

The fear of the future and even entry into the "promised land" poses a battle.  We must go into the "land of the giants" to take possession of all God has promised us. My lesson today finds me in Numbers 13-14 with the Biblical account of the exploration of the promised land and the reports that came back.

The Holy Spirit speaks to my heart and mind, "going on into the promised land after the wilderness was not only permissible, but it was also a command".  Wow, now that puts it into perspective.  The refusal of the people to move forward into the land of promise, into the land flowing with milk and honey was not only ridiculous from a historic perspective, but it was rebellion in God's eyes.  Reading the account and report given by those sent to explore the "promised land", I understand why.

The faithlessness of 10 out of the 12 who were sent to explore the land, spread like a cancer among the people.  Fear replaced faith and rebellion ensued.  Joshua spoke into their rebellion words that we need to hear today.  Acknowledging that the land was "good", Joshua emphasized the fact that, in spite of the large inhabitants of the land, God was with them and God would lead them and God would give Israel possession of the land.

In Numbers 14:9, Joshua conveyed the point of the "test" for the nation then and for me today when he said, "Only do not rebel and be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up, their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us.  Do not be afraid of them".  It is apparent that the real obstacle to the people of Israel for going forward was the "fear" that was master over their faith.

We are told by the evil one that we are outnumbered and out gunned when it comes to our taking possession of the land.  The obstacles are too big, and any attempt to move forward in God's Will would be a suicide mission.   Turn back, return to what is comfortable, the risk is greater than the reward.  Faithlessness has many expressions.

The Voice of My Shepherd speaks clearly, "If you have the faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "move from here to there" and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you."  "Only do not be afraid". 

The Holy One has made His point to me today.  I can move out and into the "land of the giants" confident that the Sovereign God of all Creation is with me.  Faith vs. fear.  The only question is, "will I go?"  

This testimony of life in 2012 and where He has brought me to this day in 2024, is another season about finding the courage like Caleb to go to the "high country" and defeat the giants in our promised land. The next blog will speak of His calling for us today. 

The Holy Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?

Occupy Til I Come

This morning at daybreak I hear the Lord say, "Occupy til I come".  Looking up that verse, I find it in Luke 19:11-13.

11. "And as they heard these things, He added and spoke a parable, because He was close to Jerusalem, and they thought that the Kingdom of God should appear immediately.  12. And He said therefore, a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for Himself a Kingdom and to return.  13.  And He called His ten servants and gave them 10 pounds and said unto them, "occupy til I come".

Interesting that Jesus spoke this to His disciples as He was about to enter Jerusalem on a donkey and begin the countdown to His exit from Earth.

For me, this is more confirmation of our assignment, that we are to manage His earthly estate (this earth) until He comes back again. "Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." 

His estate IS ours to maintain and that means, in proper management, that we evict any who would seek to take illegitimate possession of what belongs to Him. With this and other verses, I am gaining more and more understanding of His parables in these days as we are called to exercise our divine dominion under His delegated authority through proper management, powerful defense, and victorious advancement of his Kingdom here, not sitting on the sidelines waiting to be supernaturally taken out. 

To that point and understanding of our role in Kingdom advance here on earth, is the reminder that, "on THAT day" (of His return), a separation will occur between those serving the Master and those who are doing their own thing: Two women we be grinding at the mill, one will be taken, and one will be left behind.  We have been misled into some wrong thinking. The truth is that the day will come when least expected just like the flood of Noah's age, BUT the ones that were taken were the wicked and the ones left behind were the righteous not the other way around. Matt 24:40-44:

40. "Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.  41. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.  42.  Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.  43.  But know this, that if the master of the house had known the hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44.  Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

Back to Luke 19:

The interesting warning is that the "citizens" of the land, hated him but it was His servants that were given the directive to manage the estate until His return and were given the resources to do so. 

Their work was then assessed and rewarded UPON His return, for how they had used the resources they had been given to take care of and maintain the Master's estate. (His Kingdom on earth).  

14.  But the citizens hated him and sent a message after Him saying, "We will not have this man to reign over us!  15.  And it came to pass, that when He returned, having received the Kingdom, then He commanded these servants to be called to Him, to whom He had given the money, that He might know how much every man gained by trading.

After He handed out the rewards and rebuked one for his failure to invest what was given, the parable end with this: 

27.  "But those enemies of mine, who did not want that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay them before Me."

There is so much to ponder and apply to our assigned role to go forth, subdue, and advance the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth in these days as we await the return of our King.  Let none be found hard hearted toward Him, but ever ready and willing to Occupy Til He Comes!  

The Holy Spirit is Calling.  Can you hear Him?