In one of my favourite movies there is a final battle scene where the enemies are camped at the door to the fortress trying to get in with a bartering ram. “Thud, thud, thud!”. Then the camera pans over to the hero’s and they look at eachother and nod knowing what they had to do, not run or retreat further inside but to face the enemy and FIGHT!
We as the church have been in a season of fighting for an extended time. Jesus has already won the war at Calvary but this has been a fight of territory and dominion, the claiming back of stolen inheritance and the rising of the bride into her governmental authority. With that in mind I want to share the shift we heading into as the family of God and how that applies to you.
GREATER ACCESS & AUTHORITY
Just like the door in the movie, doors in the bible among others have a significant role in stating the authority of access the believer. Just look at these two scriptures;
- Psalm 24: We are ageless doors of destiny that usher in the King of Glory
- Isaiah 22:22: We have the authority to shut and open doors of access to heaven
The reason there God has been so intensely in heart surgery mode on the body of Christ for this last epoch season is because He knows that if you and I don’t get free, we won’t know our identity, and if we don’t know our identity we will never discover our inheritance and begin to usher in the king of Glory and step into our shoes of authority and access. The earth has been groaning in anticipation for YOU to finally have your prison break moment so not only do you get your breakthrough but you become Gods agent of breakthrough in the earth.
DREAM OF TRANSPORTING DOORS
Last week I had a dream where I was in an airport full of hundreds of doors that were transporting people from one place to another but I noticed that each door was given a different name and had different functions and purposes. There were three doors next to eachother that were highlighted to me. The first door that was highlighted time was called “The war is over!” A few nights ago I woke up to my daughter who was restless and not sleeping. After an hour trying to settle her she seemed to get more agitated and upset when suddenly she just fell asleep. As she did I looked at the time and it was 1:44am. I felt to read Isaiah 14 and these scriptures jumped out at me;
“In that day when the Lord Yahweh has given you rest from joy pain, trouble and cruel bondage you will jeer at the king of Babylon and recite this proverb: your oppressor has been stilled and your onslaught is over! The lord Yahweh has shattered the staff of the wicked, the brutal rod of the rulers. With their unceasing blows they used it cruelly to strike down nations. They subdued nations in anger with unrelenting persecution, but now the whole earth rests and is at peace. It bursts out with singing” Isaiah 14:3-8
There in the dark the Holy Spirit began speaking to me again about this season of the closing door and the season of war coming to an end. Where many have felt like the season of contending for the promise has been costly and draining and the opposition on their families, marriages, finances, and health has been more than they can handle - SUDDENLY the restlessness, the opposition will stop and PEACE will come! You will look back and say “Wow the onslaught is over!
Have you been laying down in defeat where you should be standing up and celebrating as a faith declaration? The door behind you is closing, the day is before you, and the season of war is at its end.
IT’S TIME FOR FLIGHT
The second door I saw was called “It’s time for flight” While the word flight means simply “the act of flying” it actually comes from the German word “flucht” which means “to flee”, and we know “flee” means to “escape”, but I asked the Lord “what are we escaping?” then the Lord showed me a vision of a yelling, taunting, scary mob that I knew represented the season many have been through of surrounding circumstances that were like living with a scary yelling mob trying to take their eyes off Jesus and onto the noise of the world. God is saying that He is leading His church out of being NOISE focussed and back onto Him. Out of being natural focussed and onto seeing how He is seeing.
The doorway is the invitation to not only RISE ABOVE but to MOVE ON from the season of perpetual distraction, diversions, and confusion and that comes only through the secret place. ASCEND and watch what God does.
THE END TO THE WRESTLE
Have you felt like this year has been one long wrestle you didn’t feel like you would survive? The wrestle of this year has been like Jacob wrestling the angel of the Lord for his promise, his name change and course altering shift from struggler to success, and in the same way God has been wanting to transition you from one place to another, one name to another, and alter the course of your future. But in that destiny wrestle many have given up and laid down in the brink of what will be their greatest moment of breakthrough.
Many have approached this threshold and experienced the thronging warfare and have fallen into deep discouragement and defeat because the witchcraft has been so endless but the voices of opposition are being silenced! The constant demonic assignments sent to prevent the crossover are being tackled to the ground right now.
Are you still lying in the dust? I hear the Holy Spirit saying “Wake up wake up! Can’t you see where you are? You are at the dawning of a new day, at the crossover point where things SUDDENLY change for you and your destiny. Get up and step in!”
FLYING AROUND THE STORM
As we flew into South Carolina a few nights ago we were delayed on the runway due to bad thunderstorms and the pilot notified us that they were having to reroute to avoid the storm to fly around it. As we got up in the air we hit really bad turbulence and I thought “have we flown directly into the storm?” It didn’t feel much different at first but then the pilot notified us that we had successfully avoided the storm and lightning and would be landing shortly.
Often as God is protecting us from the storm we still experience the turbulence of being rerouted which we call TRANSITION. It’s God retoggling our operating system and changing our course and adjusting our altitude. This sometimes causes us to feel unsettled and we begin to assume it’s more warfare but in fact it’s God flying us around the storm and protecting us from the heavy hits the enemy has been planning against us.
TASTE & SEE
The third door I saw was labeled “Taste and see” and I believe this coming year the Lord is asking those who are weary to come and be refreshed but also to dream again. He is inviting us to move above the storms and warfare that has made us feel disillusioned and powerless and void of promise and into actually TASTING & SEEING that God is good! Many of you are going to feel God elevating you above the things that would normally discourage and a fresh fire will rise up in you step into the door God has assigned for you.
In the next year you will feel so much MOVEMENT especially in the areas you have felt the most attack and where you have lost much. Recompense is coming says the Lord. For every attack, for every word spoken against you. For every hindrance and delay, for every sleepless night, sickness, financial difficulty and pain, God is flipping the coin for you. I prophesy right now that your season of the fight is about to turn to flight in Jesus name!
PRACTICAL KEYS
- Transporting doors are invitations of movement. Pay attention to where God is shifting your heart, possible geographical moves, relational realignment, and assignment shifts.
- How is your heart after this season? Do you feel heavy and in need of healing and refreshing? Commit time every day to simply worshipping and offloading and as you do you will feel a deep clean begin to sweep your heart.
- How can you better navigate transition? Daily surrender to HIS plans over yours. Ask Holy Spirit to lead you and then do what he asks.
- Stocktake the areas you have been most attacked/opposed in. Does this reveal to you where God wants to use restore and increase?
- DREAM AGAIN.. When warfare is high you stop dreaming. Let the Lord reinvent your dream space and your night space. Journal again. Pick up your guitar again. Create again. Plan adventures again.