Word - 1st May 2020

I feel God is saying, "Keep your focus on Jesus, you have not come this way before."

Out of the blue, I felt God was directing me to Joshua 3:3-4. In this passage God directs the Children of Isreal to keep their eyes on the Ark of the Covenant as they cross the Jordan to enter the Promised Land. The reason God does this is because He knows that they are entering alien territory and they had not come that way before. Before them would be great challenges, various distractions and numerous opportunities to doubt the promises of God. So God instructs them to focus their eyes and their attention on the presence of God manifest in the Ark of the Covanent which will go before them, leading and showing them the way.

I felt God was saying that it is important at this time to focus our attention and our spiritual eyes on Christ. Focus and look to the power of the Holy Spirit in us. We are entering a time that we have not experienced before and it is so easy for us to be fearful of the challenges, daunted by the distractions around us and for us to doubt the promises of God. The world would have us focus on the circumstances, God would have us focus on Christ and his life alive within us.

God is encouraging us to focus on him in the uncertainty, focus on him in the new day of life. There is always a dawn that follows the night. That dawn is the new day of endless possibilities in Christ. That dawn is the realisation that the Holy Spirit lives in you. That dawn is that all the promises of God are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus.

We may not have come this way before, but God holds us, Christ lives with us and the Holy Spirit is the power that lives in us, directing us and leading us. It is time to focus our eyes on Christ and he will lead us in greater depths of grace upon grace. Christ will lead us in greater realms of freedom and release us into greater realms of glory.

Prophetic Word - Turn The Page - For The Next Page Is Blank!

I believe there is an invitation that God through the Holy Spirit is giving to us to "Turn the page - for the next page is blank!"

God has provided for us a blank page, a new page where nothing has been written. Nothing has been formulated, nothing has been prompted. There are no suggested themes or inspiring texts. It is blank for God and you to write a new story.

This blank page contains no lines for you to write in. So you can write, draw, create, doodle, you are free to enjoy and create whatever God and you want to do.

This blank page is a spacious place. It is a place waiting to be filled, a space of possibilities, a place of desires, a realm of delight and a place of joy.

This blank page is an adventure, a page of new things, a page of new adventures, a page of intimacy, a page awaiting you.

This blank page awaits colour. It is there to be filled up with the vibrant colour of creation. It cries out for creations brush to paint with it the colours of heaven. It wants to be splashed, to be thrown at with the colours of the rainbow. It wants to come alive.

God is saying, "Turn the page!"

This is the time to leave behind the pages of the past. Turn the page into a new day of God living and working through you. Don't stay on the same page, turn the page onto a page of unlimited possibilities.

Don't be frightened, there will be challenges ahead but there will also be great adventures and God will be right there in the middle of it, guiding your hand, creating pictures and ideas with you. You are never going to be alone, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit goes with you.

This is the day of God's blank page. This is the day to turn the page into the adventure of God's plans and purposes.

Prophetic Word - Unwrap and Let Go!

Over the last few days the words from the scripture of John 11:44 have been coming back to me over and over again, “Unwrap him and let him go!”

God is saying, “It is time to be unwrapped and let go. The finished work of Christ has set you free. It is your time to walk in the freedom of the finished work of the cross. For too long, the condemnation of religion and the lies of the world have wrapped you up. For too long, sickness, lack, depression. oppression, broken-heartedness have held you in a straight jacket of death. All these things have held you back! God says, I have unwrapped you and this is the day to let go. This is the day to receive all I have won for you and to see the things that have held you back drop off. For whom the Son sets free, is free. You are a New Creation in Christ and all the past has been put to death, don’t resurrect the past, leave the past behind, leave condemnation and guilt behind and walk free from the tomb into resurrection life.

Be unwrapped of the lies, failures and oppression of the old life and let them go and walk into the fullness of the new life you have in Christ. God’s life is now your life and the Holy Spirit dwells and overflows in you. You are new in Christ, unwrap yourself of the past and everything that would hold you back.”

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It is my prayer that this word helps you, strengthens you and causes you to have greater hope for the future! I believe for some believers there will be greater challenges and situations that arise for believers, but our future is bright and full of Light! What is this light? It is the Light of His glory and truth as manifested in Christ Jesus the Son. He indeed is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He gives Light to the whole world. It is in His Light that we see Light (Psalm 36:9). May the Lord open the eyes of our understanding and flood our hearts with revelatory light and truth that we may know the hope of His calling and the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Eph 1:18)