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In prayer I have really been feeling like God has called the Church to a Sabbath rest during this time. We are to be in this season looking to the Father with full anticipation, with great expectancy. The Lord is refining the Church to come out in the knowledge of the blood, in great humility. The Bible doesn’t say that He will humble us, he tells us to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and He will exalt you. 

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 1 Peter 5:6

This is a moed appointed time, it’s not necessarily a chronological time. It’s okay to focus on the chronological timeline, but we are living in an appointed time in the timeline of God. Moed is a Biblical word used to describe the festivals and holy days, set apart from non-sacred days. Moed means “appointed time”. God is wanting to teach us an “appointed time language”, a heavenly sound during this time. 

This is a “due season”, an appointed time. Like the day of Pentecost, “the day had fully come” where the Holy Spirit was going to be poured out and they were going to have salvation brought to them. And then a few chapters later in Acts, even the gentiles were going to have salvation brought to them. 

Psalm 19 is so powerful and really shows what I have been feeling these last few weeks. It’s not long but it’s a powerful revelation of the Lord. 

The heavens declare the glory of God;

The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

Night after night they reveal knowledge.

They have no speech, they use no words;

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, 

Their words to the ends of the world. 

In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, 

like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 

It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other;

Nothing is deprived of its warmth. 

The law of the Lord is perfect, 

refreshing the soul. 

The statues of the Lord are trustworthy, 

Making wise the simple. 

The precepts of the Lord are right, 

Giving joy to the heart. 

The commands of the Lord are radiant, 

Giving light to the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is pure, 

enduring forever. 

The decrees of the Lord are firm, 

And all of them are righteous. 

They are more precious than gold, 

Than much pure gold; 

They are sweeter than honey, 

Than the honey from the honeycomb. 

By them your servant is warned;

In keeping them there is great reward. 

But who can discern their own errors? 

Forgive my hidden faults. 

Keep your servant also from willful sins;

May they not rule over me. 

Then I will be blameless, 

Innocent of great transgression. 

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my hearts

Be pleasing in your sight, 

Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. 

Verse 4 is a perfect representation of Jesus. This is a sound, our sound is going out around the world. Their words to the end of the world. The understanding of verse 4, “he has gone out” was used by the apostle Paul to show that the Jews had known the word of truth, but they refused to obey it. Because of this, a door was opened to the gentiles. 

“But I say, did they not hear? Indeed they have; “THEIR VOICE [that of creation bearing God’s message] HAS GONE OUT TO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE [farthest] ENDS OF THE WORLD.” But I say, did Israel fail to understand [that the gospel was to go also to the Gentiles]? First Moses says, “I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT A NATION (Gentiles); WITH A NATION THAT LACKS UNDERSTANDING I WILL MAKE YOU ANGRY.” Then Isaiah is very bold and says, “I HAVE BEEN FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK M E; I HAVE SHOWN MYSELF TO THOSE WHO DID NOT [consciously] ASK FOR ME.” But of Israel he says, “ALL DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED OUT M Y HANDS [in compassion] TO A DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATE PEOPLE.””

‭‭Romans‬ ‭10:18-21‬ ‭AMP‬‬

I don’t think that we just need knowledge in this time, we need to have wisdom and knowledge. We have to learn how to speak the language of heaven in this time. We need to have this Kronos knowledge. But we also need to have a Moed, which is an appointed time language. This sound has awakened him to come out of his chamber. The law of the Lord is perfect and is converting every soul. 

We are in a time of revelation like never before. I believe that Jeremiah 33:3 is so poignant: 

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.’ 

May our ear be to the ground, may we hear the sound of heaven, may we be learning with this sacred  sabbath rest the language of heaven like never before. May the articulation be heard like never before for such a time as this. We need to have this full expectation of the sound that God is releasing in this time, that He is revealing things that have never been heard before. But we have to be in tune with it. We have to be listening for His heartbeat and then step into unity with it.

Today we had a very powerful time of worship and prayer. God released many visions and proclamations and we’d like to share some of them with you today! 

In prayer today, I saw a vision of a map of the United States of America. From the East coast, there came a huge lion walking across to the West coast. He was turning his head back and forth, roaring over the land. The land was covered in darkness, like a thin film of soot was covering everything. As the lion began to roar, the blackness lifted off of the land and floated away. Color began to show through again and things were given a new life. I believe this is a sign that God is sending the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ, to awaken our nation. 

    Another thing I was reminded of during our prayer time was the story of Gideon. When God met with Gideon, he was hiding out in a winepress, threshing the wheat harvest. First of all, he was using the winepress for something it was never intended, hiding from Israel’s enemies – the Midianites. 

 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. 4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.

7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

11 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. 12 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”

The Midianites would attack the cities of Israel and destroy their harvests and kill their livestock. God tells Gideon to tear down his father’s altar to Baal and the Asherah pole. He did what God asked (during the night because he was afraid of what his family would say and do). 

I feel this is a representation of what the Church has been doing, not just in the USA, but all over the world. It’s time to dispel the ‘Midianites’ and the idols from your Promised Land, so we can see it returned to its original intent! The United States of America was founded on godly principles and morals. We need to humble ourselves and pray, and turn from our wicked ways, and God will heal our land! (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Sandie, another of our team members, saw the Prodigal Son and that the Church was the prodigal. We have been using our inheritance, spending it unwisely. But God is calling us to rise up, that Father God is still waiting for us and it is time to return to our first love in passion and holiness. We are to begin using our inheritance for what it was originally intended. 

    God is calling His Church to get out of the winepress. After Gideon got out of the winepress, things really started to shift. He chopped up and burned the Asherah pole that his family had been worshipping. God is calling us away from the idols in our lives – anything that is not of HIM! Burn those things, get them completely out of your lives, never to return. 

    Sandie also saw that we have been like Aaron, Moses’ brother. When Moses went up the mountain to meet with God for forty days, the Israelites got impatient. They didn’t wait for God. In their haste, they convinced Aaron to make a golden calf for them to worship. We need to be okay with waiting for the Lord, no matter how long it takes. If we don’t, it is all too easy to fall into creating doctrine, theology, or solutions of our own. Make sure you lean on and wait for the Lord in this time!

    Another of our team, Melissa,  saw the Scripture John 14:21

    “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

    This is what it is all about! This is the pure Gospel: those who love God will keep his commands and he will disclose Himself to them! It’s about a love relationship with the God of the universe, the One who knows us better that anyone. 

    Yet another of our team, Marcy, saw the music of worship shifting. She saw the music changing from a minor key to a major key. Minor keys are what we associate with sad or contemplative songs. Major keys are what we associate with happy or praise songs, upbeat songs that evoke joy. We are coming into a season of rejoicing. Natalie, our worship leader, started playing “Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble”. One of the lines goes “Open up the doors and let the music play, let the streets resound with singing. Songs that bring your hope and songs that bring your joy, dancers who dance upon injustice.” 

Marcy also saw a great gathering of believers under Jehovah Nissi, “The Lord my Banner”. Marcy also saw the word “Conjuring” over Salem. There was a blackness that was swirling around the capitol. As we prayed, the letters that make up the word “conjuring” were all mixed up. They were trying to come back together, but they were dispelled by the Word and proclamation of God. She heard these words from Zechariah 4:6, “…’Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.” It is not by our own power or might or solutions that the darkness will be dispelled, but by His Spirit and power. God is breaking down the Jezebel spirit and witchcraft over our state and nation. 

    Lynda, our President here at Sanctioned Love, saw the Lord with a two edged sword. He was stirring up the gifts of the spirit with the sword, with the Word. There is a mixture of the gifts of the spirit and the Word. “It’s a perfect mixture,” she felt the Lord say. 

    Another team member, Joy, saw a vision. She was sitting at Jesus’ feet. She was in such awe and reverence. She didn’t even want to look up into Jesus’ face, it was such a holy moment. But then he told her to stand up, so she did. And then he told her to stand on His feet. She stood on His feet and he began to walk. She couldn’t see where they were going, but He could. Jesus wants to lead us, like a little child would stand on his father’s feet, in complete trust. We don’t need to see the full picture, we only need to walk in obedience. The scripture that talks about how God will lead his people with his eyes came to mind as she was sharing this vision with the team: 

    “I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.” – Psalm 32:8

    We need only trust that God knows where he wants us to go. He will lead us with His loving eyes!

During the Gifts from His Heart Conference in February, Melissa gave Jerry a word from God. She said that Jerry was like Abraham and that he was climbing up the mountain to test him with his Isaac. She said that when they got to the altar, it was Jerry lying there in Isaac’s place. She saw him lying on the altar and that God was either going to supply a ram, or he was going to resurrect him on the altar. It was at this point Jen felt God  told her to “Pay attention to Sarah”

Both Jen and Jerry were undone. They didn’t know exactly what that meant at the time. For the weeks that followed, they fought a hard battle. When quarantine hit, it became even more difficult. It is very devastating if a person with kidney disease gets sick. Jerry started throwing up almost every night. 

At the beginning of April, Jerry had not been throwing up at night for about two weeks. Then, all of a sudden he had a night where he was throwing up every few hours. Jen’s heart sank as she went to the Lord in prayer. 

The next morning, on April 15th, as she was looking through Facebook she saw a post from Linda Crawford. She felt that this was a divine appointment in a sense, that God had orchestrated a word of encouragement for her and Jerry. 

This is what Linda posted: 

“DO YOU HAVE A WORD FROM GOD?”

I have a Word from God. Since 2001, I have dealt with ovarian cancer and overcome because of that “Word from God”! LUKE 8:50 has been my main scripture, Many scriptures have been added over the years.

His Word has been my stronghold. I have stood and not casually believed but actively go after what He has spoken to me. I will not allow myself to dwell on what people may say or what my body may try to say, because if it is contrary to what my Father God has told me, IT IS A LIE from the enemy! I meditate on His Word, I listen for His voice. His Word is my compass, it is my homing device. All my strength comes from His Word.

I have index cards with scriptures He has given me to bring me back to “center” when I am overwhelmed… Always faithful is He to draw me close and confirm His promises to me. Never to condemn me. I stand on His Word and nothing else matters.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m far from perfect but I depend on the One (Jesus) Who is perfect. It isn’t my strength, it is His strength, it isn’t my faith, it is His faith that He freely gives me. I daily renew my mind in Him. I remember He can never lie, He does not change His mind. What He has said that will He do. PSALMS 89:34, Jeremiah 30:17. 

Hebrews 11:11 says Sarah’s faith embraced God’s miracle power … for the AUTHORITY of her faith RESTED in the One who made the promise and she tapped into His faithfulness.

Just like Peter, he had a “Word from God” and walked on water. As long as his eyes were focused on the One who gave the Word, Jesus, Peter was able to see and do the impossible. 

So can we!!!!! Listen and hear the Word of God. It is available to all who will have ears to hear!!! 

This message is for someone today!!

FEAR NOT, ONLY BELIEVE.”

This spoke to Jen so profoundly. The fear that had been knocking at her door was just a distraction. She needed to lift her eyes to the Father and believe that He will do what He says He will do. Hebrews 11:11 stood out to her so much. 

Sarah’s faith embraced the miracle power to conceive even though she was barren and was past the age of childbearing, for the authority of her faith rested in the One who made the promise, and she tapped into his faithfulness. -Hebrews 11:11 (TPT)

You may be walking through a similar situation, waiting for your miracle. We all have our faith journeys and they rarely work out in the time frame we expect or want. But God is walking right there with us. We only need to believe. Jen and Jerry are still believing for their miracle, trusting God in the midst of the journey. Be encouraged today: that even if you’re walking through a time of testing – He is with you!

In His Love,

The Sanctioned Love Team

Today we have a testimony from Jen and Jerry Meyers. Jen is our administrative assistant here at Sanctioned Love and she is absolutely amazing. Today she and her husband wanted to share a faith journey that they have been walking for the last 5 years.

Jerry had been suffering severe headaches and high blood pressure for about 8 years.  Every 2 years he would receive a physical, however the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong and would give him a clean bill of health. He went through countless scopes, MRI’s, CAT scans and blood work, but still nothing was showing up that the doctors could see. Finally they decided to have the orders sent to a specialist in Medford, Oregon. When everything came back clear once again, the specialist said that he was going to order a biopsy of Jerry’s kidneys and it was at this point they found that Jerry had IGA nephropathy, a type of kidney disease. 

As Jen and Jerry sat in the doctor’s office after hearing the diagnosis in June of 2015, they could barely speak. They were so shocked and at a loss for words and wondered why it had taken so long to find. The specialist told them that Jerry’s kidneys were functioning at 21 percent and at 20 percent they put people on lists for kidney transplants.  It was all too much to process all at once, and the Dr. said I will schedule to see you again in 3 months.  

The next week after Jen and Jerry had come home from the specialist in Medford, Jen went to the YMCA to workout and she said she just knew she had to listen to a message on faith. During the podcast a scripture was read and she just knew it was God inviting her in and challenging her to believe He could do all things for them who believe.  This scripture has become her word from God to stand on ever since! 

 Mark 11:23 Passion Translation

Listen to the truth I speak to you: If someone says to this mountain with great faith and having no doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done.”

From then on, Jen said she had her ‘head in heaven’, she was believing what God had told her and praying that “as it was in heaven, that it would be so on earth.”  In her conversation with God, she said “God, I just want you to get all the glory! No matter what, YOU WILL! If you choose to heal Jerry by a transplant then You’ll still get the glory, but I’m gonna believe for a complete creative miracle and that you’ll make his kidney’s brand new!”  

God would get the glory no matter what happened. Almost every night Jen would pray over Jerry thanking God for new kidneys, pulling down heaven over Jerry while he slept.  Over the course of the months and months that followed, Jerry’s kidney function started to rise little bit by little bit. The doctors told them that the disease was irreversible, so for the count to rise was in itself a miracle!  They went from 21 percent to 28 percent then up to 37 percent. Jen and Jerry’s faith was rising! Around June of 2018 Jerry’s kidney function rose to 47 percent and their faith was just through the roof. Jen can remember saying “Your doing it God!! Your doing itt!”

 On February 6 of 2019 they were going to celebrate their 20th Anniversary!  Both of them wanted to lose a little weight before going on the trip. So Jerry decided to try the Keto diet. After two weeks on the diet he started to lose his appetite. He said that food just didn’t taste good anymore. Jen started looking up what it meant when people with kidney disease had a weird taste in their mouths. She found that a metallic taste in the mouth signaled kidney failure. When Jerry got home she asked him if the weird taste he was having in his mouth was metalic. He said, “That’s exactly what it is. How did you know?” Jen immediately told him that he was stopping the keto diet and they needed to go see the doctor. 

When they got the results back from the doctor, he gave them the news that Jerry’s kidney function had gone from 46 percent to 23 percent. It was devastating and very disappointing for them. 

Jen shares that this last year has been very hard for them. And the last 3-4 months even more so with all the sickness going around. Jerry has been throwing up multiple times a night. They have had to be very careful with the coronavirus going around. It’s very dangerous for someone with kidney disease to get sick. 

Jen says that fear was knocking on the door trying to get in and it’s a daily struggle to keep her mind on faith and what God says rather than what the enemy says. 

But even in all that God was showing her to have faith and believe Him, to trust Him. She shares that even in the darkest times, God is right there. These last few years have “exercised and stretched her faith muscles”. Sometimes we don’t always see the miracle in the way we want to. It’s a journey. But we can always have this assurance: that God will never leave you or forsake you!  She believes God is doing something behind the scenes and never wastes anything. 

We will continue with this series next week so be sure to join us for second installment of this series called, “Only Believe”. 

In His Name,

The Sanctioned Love Team

Happy Resurrection Day! And what an exciting time to be alive. This weekend we get to not only celebrate the fact that Jesus died for us and washed away our sins. But we also get to celebrate the fact that HE ROSE FROM THE GRAVE. And because he rose from the dead, we get access to everything that He has access to. 

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to be outside the tomb when the stone was rolled away? Imagine the disciples’ joy and astonishment (even though Jesus had told them repeatedly that he would rise again) when they saw Jesus resurrected. 

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

Romans 6:5-12

Baptism is a picture of the death of Christ and His resurrection. When we go under the water, it signifies our dying to the old man. When we rise, we rise in Him, a new creation!

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2: 1-7

But what does it mean for us to be seated with Christ in heavenly places? It means that we have the authority to take captive every thought. We have the authority to command sickness to leave. We have the authority to move mountains!

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 

2 Corinthians 10:4 &5

Our team has been hearing a lot about humility and authority in our prayer times. It is in this time while we are shut in that we are preparing for how we will come out on the other side. One of the things the Lord showed us was Mary breaking open the alabaster box and pouring oil over Jesus. Jesus knew that Palm Sunday was going to happen right after this event took place. The fragrance of brokenness was still wafting through the air. The greatest form of worship was the fragrance that Jesus was wearing someone’s brokenness. The worship of brokenness is what Jesus chose to wear as he was on the donkey hearing the people shouting “Hosanna!”.

We also had a word during the Gifts From His Heart Conference and we thought it would be appropriate to share today. Melissa shared this word that when Jesus had risen, in Matthew 28 the disciples came and met him at the mountain and some fell down and worshipped, but some doubted. These were believers! It was one of the eleven disciples still left after the crucifixion. Seeing the Lord put them into a sort of trepidation, they questioned. They desire that it might be Jesus, became their fear. They were worried that they might have been wrong, and in honor of Him, they doubted. Especially in difficult times of our lives we find it hard to fall down in worship. The word of encouragement is this, that right after this: the other disciples told them they had seen the Lord. Thomas said that unless he saw the nail marks and put his hand into his sides, he would not believe. And a week later, the Lord shows up for Thomas. The Lord will never leave you, even if you’re in a time of trouble or doubting. I love that Thomas wanted the conformation. Man to God. Don’t undermine yourself in your doubt. We’re not talking about doubting who he is. They just didn’t want to miss him, to make sure it was Him. We also felt that there was a contemplation of suicide in this time. But we bind that in Jesus name! God has placed you here in this time, in this place, for a specific purpose.

We are Jesus’ hands and feet on this earth. Now, that’s not just a cute saying. We have to make that a reality in our lives. We are the ones who literally get to display who Jesus is to others. It is in these times of uncertainty, when we are ‘squeezed’ so to speak, that we see what is really inside of people. Let’s make sure it’s Jesus that is coming out of us!

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:16-18

Oh, Lord, let Your love be made perfect in us! Instead of reacting in fear, we need to be acting in love. We need to get up in our seat, see what Father God is doing, and then do it!

God Bless you on this Resurrection Day, 

-The Sanctioned Love Team

“The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.”

‭‭Exodus‬ 12:1-12

This passage of scripture hits close to home in a whole new way doesn’t it? The Hebrews were told to stay in their homes, with the blood of the lambs on their doorposts. Anyone who was found inside the homes with the blood on the doorposts, would be spared. The angel of death would pass over. Those who were firstborn found outside those homes, would be killed.  

We can empathize with the Hebrews of that day like never before. We are shut up in our homes, fear is rampant, and it feels like the world has lost all hope. 

But we as Christian have an answer for our hope. And His name is Jesus. We have been sealed with the Blood of the Lamb. 

The Certainty of God’s Promise

When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.” And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.

People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrew 6:13-20

Maybe you’ve heard this phrase, “to plead the blood”. But what does it mean to “plead the blood’? Jesus has room in us because of the blood. He has access. 

PLEAD, verb intransitive In a general sense, to argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another.

1. In law, to present an answer to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff’s declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that he ought not to recover in the suit. The plaintiff declares or alleges; the defendant pleads to his declaration. The king or the state prosecutes an offender, and the offender pleads not guilty, or confesses the charge.

So when we plead the blood against COVID-19, we are denying it’s declaration of fear and destruction over us and those we love. The plans of the enemy will come to naught, in the Name of Jesus! COVID-19 has tried to lift its name above the name of Jesus. But the Name of Jesus is above every name. The name of coronavirus must bow to the name of Jesus!

We are in a Sabbath, a time of rest. And The Lord is asking, “What is hidden in your heart?” Where are you unstable? Where are you floundering in double-mindedness? Are there times when you are operating in fear and others when you are believing God? God is using this time to bring us back into focus. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Anything that is not of God cannot stand!

Hebrews 12: 18-29: You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” 

The things of this world are being shaken, and everything that does not have eternal value, must fall. God is preparing us to bring in the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever known! And we get the honor and privilege to be a part of it!!

We do not have to give in to fear. We know what happens at the end of the story (God has already revealed what is to come in the end times). God is allowing us to be in a season of refinement, of leaning into Him and listening to his voice. This is the time for us to let go of all distractions and lean in to the “big breasted One”, to hear what He is saying and what he wants to do on the earth. We have the authority of heaven backing us. God’s word has already been established in heaven. We are the ones who have the authority to make it manifest on the earth. Be encouraged today. God is still on the throne and he is still good!

When Isaac came back to the land that had belonged to his father, Abraham, he found the wells he had dug had been closed up by the Philistines. Isaac came back for the express purpose of reopening those wells. 

Genesis 25:11 – After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 26: 18-25 – 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.20 But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him. 21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

23 From there he went up to Beersheba. 24 That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

26 Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces. 27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”

28 They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you 29 that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the Lord.”

30 Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. 31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.

32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!” 33 He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.

The first well, Esek: JEALOUSY will consume and destroy us

Jealousy can be subtle. It sneaks in and you find yourself quarreling with people you never had a problem with before. Why? Usually it stems back to jealousy. 

The second well, Sitnah: ACCUSATION comes to steal your provision

After the second well was contested, it was clear that they were not worried about the water. It was Isaac’s fame that they deplored. 

The third well, Rehoboth: ROOM ENOUGH perseverance produces fruit, and fruit produces peace

The Lord made room for Isaac and his people. Finally, they had provision. They persevered and were able to enjoy the fruit of their labors. God brought them peace from their strife. 

The fourth well, OATH/SEVEN completion and overflow, abundance

The last well was uncontested because Isaac acted instead of reacting. It can be easy to fall into reacting when we are plagued by fear. We need to see what God is doing, especially in this time, so that we can act when we are called upon, instead of reacting in fear. 

We also encounter wells in the spirit. Places where God’s spirit has moved and many of them have been plugged over the years. We believe that God is getting ready, and preparing us, to reopen those wells! If a well is stopped up, it can’t do what it was originally created to do. It doesn’t mean the water is gone necessarily, it just means that it no longer has a flow. We have to dig down deeper to get to the water. 

Many of you may feel like plugged up wells. Now is the time to dig deep. That perseverance will produce fruit in time. Stir up the gifts inside of you. Dig into the things of God so that He can bring refreshing to those dry places. 

Unplugging your wells is not about keeping your schedule. It’s about coming into alignment with His presence. It’s about reprioritizing things that have been put aside. It’s time to slow down, because we literally have no other choice at the moment. We have a perfect opportunity as we are being quarantined to take time to be with Him and really listen to what He is saying. What a beautiful opportunity to lay down the things that make us busy, but should not be our focus in this season. We need to allow Him to lead our days, our schedule, our mindsets and our emotions. This time of ‘interruption’ can be a great opportunity to lean deeper into the things of the Lord. We need to put Him first and foremost in our lives. 

This is also a time to lean in and inquire from the heart and mind of our Father. Incline your ear. When we incline we may feel a little off-balance because we are leaning in so far, but as we feel off-balance he brings to us the scale from heaven so we realign with what the truth is. We can either view this time as isolation or solitude. Just because we have to socially distance ourselves does not mean that we cannot be about the Father’s business. Use this time as a preparation period, to dig deep into the Word and prayer, to lean into your relationship with Jesus. He is pouring out His spirit like never before. It’s not time for a ‘vacation’, rather we are in a season of protection, a cocoon, and when we come out we need to be ready to do what God has prepared us to do!

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