Last night in a dream I was with a small group of people and we were watching over the nations of the earth when we suddenly began to erupt in what looked and sounded like a tribal war cry and dance as an intercession over the nations. Then I began prophesying;
“Bride, oh mighty bride it’s time to get out of the pit. It’s time to leave the rut you have been in. There is a new day dawning and you must arise with it! Oh, Bride don’t you see this is your moment? This is your glorious hour? Just when you thought you were defeated and it was all over. This is your moment to get your fight back. Oh Bride you are leaving the rut! You are leaving the pit! Put on your strength. Stamp your feet and shake the nations. Justice shall arise. Life shall come forth where there was death. Mercy shall flow and healing shall come. Pour out the oil bride, pour out your wine. The funeral has ended and the wedding has begun! It’s a new day dawning can’t you see? Rise up bride! Rise up mighty warriors!”
“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand” Psalm 4:2
OUT OF THE RUT & INTO THE REBIRTH
When I woke up I was a mess. I could feel the weight of what I was prophesying and the heart of the Bridegroom Jesus speaking to his bride. I believe God showed me this because the church has been in John 10:10 moment, a choose life or death, hope deferred or faith, culture or the king of Glory moment. It’s the “seed falling to the ground” season and the end of an era, an old wineskin, and the end to the hour of the bride's defeat and wilderness bound, and lying helpless in a pit. There has been an awakening and God is stirring up the battle cry of the church once again where we will say “it’s time for life, it’s time for our re-birth, it’s time to let out our cry in the earth!”
“Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor” Isaiah 52:1
BACK TO OUR ROOTS & BACK TO THE GARDEN
In that new tribal cry, we are taking back what we have forfeited and once again rising to the call to be the bride who isn’t afraid to get our hands in the mud, to see healing sweep our homes, cities, and nations. To get a fresh conviction and branding for the things that grieve the Lord's heart, and to be the crazy ones willing to go and shake things up for the kingdom.
We are coming back to our roots again. Back to the beginning, to our first love and being delivered from every poison and hindrance that has taken us in other directions and reduced our true influence in the earth and numbed our conviction and responsibility to disciple and steward the destiny of nations. This is a reformational moment where we are losing our heads and finding our hearts, losing our humanism and rediscovering the intimacy from the garden, and putting down our daggers used against our brothers and picking up our swords to slay giants and hammers to break new ground. We are stepping into the time where the church finds comes back to her roots and finds her war cry again. Let it be so..
“You are my war club, my weapon for battle-- with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms” Jeremiah 51:20
THE RAW CRY & THE END TO THE MANUFACTURED SOUND
Our raw cry has been disrupted for so long by the manufactured sound and the edited speech that we have forgotten how to let the spirit of God bubble forth and speak through us, prophesy through us, and groan through us. We have feared the full manifestation of heaven so kept it at arms length then wondered why we don’t see heaven invade our homes, churches, and cities. But this cry is the rolling out of the red carpet for the King of Glory Jesus. It’s the desperate cry of a people who are no longer saying “Come within these guidelines” but simply “Come Lord however you want to!”. The days are upon us where we will not be able to hold back the word of the Lord but we will be so possessed by his spirit that we will break out with singing, break out with dance, and erupt with the word of the Lord.
“But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name, his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot” Jeremiah 20:9
THE CUTTING OF STRINGS & THE TAKING DOWN OF GOLIATHS
I felt like this cry was the church standing to her feet after laying in the battlefield for so long. It felt like the FIGHT-BACK of a people who had only known being bound, yoked with heaviness, bullied, tricked, and being pillaged and plundered for a long time. I could sense the veils of lies being removed that has been like a spell over the nation's suddenly breaking as the song rung out. It was a bride being emancipated from every demonic assignment and diversion sent to derail her and take her off course. I saw the strings being cut that was hidden and keeping whole generations tied up and held at bay. I believe this is an hour that we are losing our fear of man and allegiance to our captors and tyrant masters, and we are shaking off the INTIMIDATION OF GOLIATH so we can take our place as the giant killers we were always called to be. Yes, this is our moment to pick up our stones, and swords again!
“But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!” Isaiah 42:22
THE COUNTERFEIT CRY OF JUSTICE & MOVEMENTS
And as our feet were stamping the ground it was sending shockwaves around the world that were awakening the rest of the bride, breaking off shackles, and revealing and exposing what had been under the surface. I saw the counterfeit movements that were suddenly being revealed for what they really were. They were FALSE and appearing as light but they were part of the enemy's religious agenda to deter the bride from her real post. In my spirit, I heard “Esther will not right for the wrong cause!” This is a moment to know what you are about and for but the raw war cry will make it clear.
WE ARE IN THE MOMENT THAT THE HEAVENS SHALL ANSWER!
As I was processing this with the Lord a scripture dropped into my spirit;
“Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us” Isaiah 8:9-10
As soon as I read this I heard the phrase “I will answer!” and I sensed that the war cry of the bride was releasing the justice of heaven into the earth and indeed we would see the Lord's answer for EVERY injustice we have seen. There has been a delayed justice and a delayed restoration and vindication upon the church and also you and I, but just like David at Ziklag, we are NOT STAYING DEFEATED but we are going to overcome and recover all! This is a boots on the ground time where justice will prevail. Where righteousness will prevail and shine like the noonday sun!
“He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun” Psalm 37:6
UNCOVER, RECOVER, HEAL, UNITE, REBUILD
The war cry is going to refine the church as we have never seen before. We will see a mass awakening for the harvest but also some will choose not to be awoken. The war cry will create such an invitation Into renewed intimacy and a fresh dance with Jesus.
I felt this war cry and dance was prophetic intercession on behalf of the unborn, and the call to champion life that will see the unlocking of ALL areas of injustice around the earth in the years to come. It will continue to uncover wounds and then bring healing to them so the bride could begin to be a united sound once again and begin to rebuild the nations.
This war cry is the clarion call of the church right now. We must break out and be ministers of breakthrough power in the days to come. We must let go of the ceilings of religion and like David sing, dance, and worship and say “I can be so much more undignified than this!”
I prophesy forth your raw cry and your war cry right now in Jesus name!