9/1/09

Blessings to you!  I just want to share some things the Lord has been stirring in my spirit since late last night.  Many of us have been in a very hard season for some time now!  It seems that we are all struggling with this place we have found ourselves in, unable to move out and beyond the walls of captivity.  For some, captivity has been a place of illness or sickness, for others, grief and despair, and yet for others, a place of lack or poverty, and many other combinations and types of captivities as well.  I have also heard of many people being led into ministry, yet finding themselves in a straight jacket of sorts due to circumstances in their lives.  I have had my own experience with it (captivity) and let me say, it has been a hard place and a cruel taskmaster.  For any of you that have experienced it in one way or another, I know you will agree.

I, like many of you, have been in prayer, fasting, and praise attempting to come out of this bondage, but seemingly to no avail!  Very frustrating indeed!  It has been on the forefront of my mind these past weeks, knowing that we have been going through a change of seasons for the past two-three months but not seeing the manifested change in the natural realm.  Late last night something began to stir in my spirit, I said to my husband, late last night, I think the Lord is going to give me a dream tonight, but upon waking this morning I realized no dream had come!  But at the same time, this same stirring was still going on in my spirit.  As I began to minister to a friend of ours this morning, the Lord began to speak and allowed me to articulate the very thing that I was sensing.  And then this unction came upon me to release for all and here is what the Lord said:

"For those who have been in this place of captivity and stronghold in your life, my new season is upon you.  I am with you and in the midst of you and I have heard your cries!  I have heard your faith, and I have heard your despair, and I am moving on your behalf.  I have come upon the scene and am moved with compassion for you.  I am dealing with every thing that has held you back, and I am breaking down the walls of your captivity, says God. I am declaring freedom to you today and I am setting you in a high place, far above every principality and every high thing that would dare to set itself up against the knowledge of me!  I declare today that you are free in my Name, that you are coming out...yes, not in the way that you envisioned, but I am bringing my people up and out of this dry and rocky place. There have been many injuries, many trials and sufferings, but I, the Lord will anoint you with the oil of gladness and the joy of your salvation and you will look and see that every bruise is healed, every wound is closed and every hurt is no longer remembered.  I am the God that healeth thee and not just your physical and emotional wounds, but every thing that has been stolen from you will be restored, for I am a just God and I see and I know how the enemy has moved upon you.  I see how his troops were mobilized against you but I am your Savior and Redeemer and I have a plan.  I have a plan to receive you unto myself and cover you with my wings and anoint you anew for this new season you have entered.  See, I have said entered not as in something coming, but rather, something that has already begun.  I am filling your hearts and your mouths with my mighty Word, and it will be sharper and quicker in you than ever before. For as it was with Gideon, I established a plan for total victory and it came, not through numbers or human strength but because I purposed it and I performed it and I did it before, so will I do again!  Rejoice, for your captivity is ending and I am leading you out with a shout and with great joy.  I am leading captivity captive and I am releasing you from prison.  Hear me now, O ye children, hear me now, O ye inhabitants of the earth, for I am the faithful God, my name is Jehovah and you shall look and see that my children are not forsaken but they are loved and nurtured by my hands, the hands of a loving Father who knows just what they need and when they need it!  I say today, to every pharoah holding you captive, let my children go, let my children go, let my children go now!"

Thank you Father, Thank you Jesus!  What a precious word from our Daddy!  Stay in a place of peace and rest, do not allow the enemy to toss you anymore. Know that your freedom is on the way and according to the Word of the Lord, it will not come as you envisioned it....meaning, it will come in a different way than what you thought it would!  And I love that!  The enemy cannot possibly know how God will do this thing, but it will surely come to pass. Rejoice today, God is moving on your behalf and He has heard your every cry!  What an awesome deliverer we serve!  What an awesome God He is!!  Glory be to you Lord Jesus!