Remnant… oh Remnant, you have been born for such a time as this! Like Esther who separated herself to purify herself, surrendered her ideals and motives to the threshing floor, and picked up the fiery baton of the King's mandate of the hour. I see you and you look beautiful.
I have seen you wrestle this process through the mess of this season. I have seen you fall on your knees a thousand times and want to give up on the hard road you have walked. I have seen you die a hundred deaths in the fires of adversity and persecution. I have seen you enter the cocoon of the Lord's refinery and emerge with new wings. New at first and feeling unsure and still remembering the pain of the past season but carrying new wings nonetheless. Do you feel them yet? No? You soon will.
You have been in the deepest metamorphosis of your life so far—prepared for a divine purpose that is about to be revealed—and all around you are others who have been prepared for this very same thing.
Now let me address the ones who felt like they died in this past season.
Yes, you! I see you!
The Lord has NOT forgotten you!
I saw you with nothing left yet still hanging onto the threads of Jesus’ garment. I know you have faced countless nights enduring the tormenting voice of the enemy screaming at you to give up and retreat, and you wanted to, but you knew the cost. You knew what was at stake so you stood. Against all odds, you stood.
Remnant, I know the process you have been through. I know it felt final. I know it meant closure on many things that you didn’t understand. I know the door slammed shut and it caught you by surprise. Those people that you wanted to come with you into the cocoon but they just weren’t ready to come. They just weren’t at that place and you can’t beat yourself up over it anymore. In fact, if you continued with them you would have been unequally yoked and sent further into bondage.
I saw the COST of this season has been more than all your life’s warfare combined. I know many of you faced endless locusts and plagues and even felt abandoned by God. “Job," you said. "I feel like Job! But Lord you restored Job so many times over! Will you do the same for me?”
And I hear 2 Samuel 22:25;
“Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before His eyes”.
There will be a RECOMPENSE! In this move of the Spirit, begin to expect the places of your own family devastation and broken promises to live again. God is moving corporately with His remnant to see the waste places raised up again!
THE EAGLES NEST ARE SPRINGING UP & LONE RANGERS ARE FINDING THEIR TRIBE
There is something special and unique, and UNEXPECTED that is taking place right now. We have all felt this for years and have felt the pull to press in for and pioneer community in ways we haven’t seen, but RIGHT NOW is a very strategic moment in that process.
Eagle's nests are springing up.
Homes are becoming gathering places for more than prayer nights and bible studies.
People are coming together to discuss their mission plans.
The eagle's nests are forming and they will NOT look like the eagle's nests of old. They will not be breeding grounds for man's ways parading as God's. Nor will they be barracks for soldiers forming to carry out a mission, but they will be home bases for the eagles to find rest, family, and refreshing. They will be places to be encouraged, armed, equipped, and sent back out!
I feel like those who have been long-term lone rangers, God is speaking to you the most right now. Your paradigm is changing quickly. You left those people because they bullied and shut you down. They rejected you and alienated you and tried to prevent you from your calling. I get it.
The Lone Ranger life is safer and less drama but the loneliness has become a wounding to you in this past year—like a deep-stabbing sorrow in your heart that you can’t seem to escape.
Let me tell you the very crux of this word and why I am delivering it to you right now...
You are the Remnant, the set aside one. Not the rejected, the forgotten, or the passed over—let that lie fall off you right now. You are a carrier of something precious, so precious in fact that few could fathom or understand it. You are a fragrance in the Lord's hand and those unaccustomed to the scent did not accept you.
BUT... Remnant…. YOUR LONELY ISOLATION DAYS ARE OVER BECAUSE I SEE YOUR TRIBE RUNNING TO YOU!
THE COMPANY OF THE KNITTED HEARTS
We are in a season that is an important part of any militant process, it’s the Lord aligning His regiment. The Church has been out of order and open to attack but the remnant, the 300, Gideon’s army, or however many they may be, are coming into formation. That is where we are at:
Moses needed people to hold up his arms in battle and you need that too in this next season. Alone you fell on your face too many times but this next season, Remnant, you will have people holding you up and carrying you over the finish line!
Well done for standing.
Well done for keeping your course.
Remnant, your tribe is coming and it will be MAGNETIC...
They won’t despise you, they will be drawn to you!
They won’t compete with you, they will pour into you!
Remnant, find your people, open that space, prepare that table, and let’s RUN together!